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How Crystal Clanton, Clarence Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter,’ Became His Clerk
Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked [...]
Clarence Thomas’s Clerks: An ‘Extended Family’ With Reach and Power
The Supreme Court justice has built a network of former clerks who share messages, meals and a common vision — wielding influence at universities, law [...]
Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds
The justice failed to repay much, perhaps all, of the $267,230 loan. His benefactor wiped the slate clean, with ethical and potential tax consequences [...]
Justice Thomas’s Friend Defends Tuition Payments by Harlan Crow
WASHINGTON — A Republican donor from Texas paid for two years of private-school tuition for Justice Clarence Thomas’s great-nephew, a gift that the ju [...]
What Scalia’s Defense of a Free Jet Trip Says About Thomas’s Travels
WASHINGTON — Almost 20 years ago, during the Supreme Court’s winter break in 2004, Justice Antonin Scalia took a free trip on a Gulfstream jet, hitchi [...]
Does Clarence Thomas’s concurrence in Dobbs herald the end of same-sex marriage and other rights?
In the Supreme Court’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito writes that “nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doub [...]
Ginni Thomas’s Texts, and the Limits of Chief Justice Roberts’s Power
WASHINGTON — In the wake of revelations about incendiary text messages from Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, to the Trump White H [...]
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s long fight against fair elections
We now know that Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, spent the weeks after the 2020 election cheerleading the Trump [...]
Texts Show Ginni Thomas’s Embrace of Conspiracy Theories
Two days after the 2020 election, Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, texted an old friend, Mark Meadows, the chief of staff to Pres [...]
Amongst These Urgent Trump to Weed Out Disloyalty: Clarence Thomas’s Spouse
For the previous 18 months, Ginni Thomas, the spouse of Justice Clarence Thomas, and different conservatives have plied the White Home with memos a [...]
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