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Clarence Thomas
The conservative Supreme Court justice went on an international round-trip in 2010 with his billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow, according to Sen. Ron Wyden.
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden asked Attorney General Merrick Garland for a special counsel investigation of potential ethics and tax law violations.
The Rahimi decision has implications that go beyond a single defendant or a single law.
The Supreme Court justice took the trips, which were paid for by billionaire political donor Harlan Crow, between 2017 and 2021.
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"They look for any little thing they can find, and they try to make something out of it," the Supreme Court justice said of ProPublica.
The Supreme Court justice's annual financial disclosure was released Friday.
Thomas spoke at a conference attended by judges, attorneys and court personnel in the 11th Circuit, which hears federal cases from Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
The Supreme Court justice has been all the things he claims to hate: a welfare queen, a duplicitous double agent, a diversity hire, a beneficiary of reparations, and a minstrel show.
Thomas, 75, also was not participating remotely in arguments, as justices sometimes do when they are ill or otherwise can't be there in person.
"The Daily Show" correspondent has some blunt advice for anyone trying to buy access to power.