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Texas appellate judge defends Clarence Thomas’ honor over Harlan Crow-paid vacations

WASHINGTON – Appellate Judge James Ho of Dallas, a former law clerk to Clarence Thomas, defended the justice’s honor Tuesday, rejecting ethics allegations involving lavish trips provided by real estate magnate Harlan Crow.

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GOP megadonor leaps to defend Clarence Thomas over real estate disclosures

Harlan Crow says reporting about his and Mr Thomas’s friendship ‘lacks integrity’

The Independent UK

Robin Abcarian: What Clarence Thomas calls hospitality looks a lot more like corruption

I am shocked, shocked to find that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' commitment to originalism — that is, the belief that legal texts should be interpreted as they were understood when they were adopted — comes to a screeching halt the minute he slides off the bench.

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Key takeaways from Harlan Crow’s interview with The Dallas Morning News on Clarence Thomas

DALLAS — Harlan Crow, the Dallas real estate magnate whose friendship with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has drawn national attention, doesn’t believe they’ve done anything wrong.

Tribune News Service

Fox News analyst calls for investigation of Clarence Thomas corruption claims

Juan Williams calls supreme court justice ‘my old friend’ but says ‘smell of financial corruption’ has damaged institution

The Guardian - US

Harlan Crow: There’s nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas

DALLAS — Harlan Crow believes he and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the victims of a “political hit job.”

Tribune News Service

Harlan Crow discusses his friendship with Justice Clarence Thomas for the first time

“It blows my mind that people assume that because Clarence Thomas has friends, that those friends have an angle.”

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Editorial: Investigation into Supreme Court Justice Thomas is warranted

In addition to the lavish trips previously reported, ProPublica has now revealed that, in 2014, right-wing billionaire Harlan Crow bought a Savannah house and lots part-owned by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, where the jurist’s mother still lived. If the earlier unreported trips were legally dubious, this undeclared purchase much…

Tribune News Service

Clarence Thomas reported thousands of dollars in income from real estate company that doesn’t exist anymore

The SCOTUS member is under scrutiny for financial disclosures after his relationship with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow was revealed

The Independent UK

Clarence Thomas’ billionaire benefactor inherited a commercial real estate empire—his father was once the largest landlord in the US

Harlan Crow, and his private art collection including a “dead dictator” statue collection and a Hitler painting, are in the spotlight.

Fortune

Senator rips Roberts' silence on Thomas

"Friends don't also buy your properties and deck them out for your family members to continue living in"

Salon

Calls to impeach Thomas over $133K deal

"Harlan Crow is not, as Thomas claims, his 'dearest friend' so much as his corrupt benefactor," critic says

Salon

Clarence Thomas failed to disclose 2014 real estate deal with GOP megadonor

Records show Harlan Crow purchased three parcels of land, including the plot where Thomas’ mother still lives, for a combined $133,363 in 2014

The Independent UK

Thomas didn't disclose billionaire deal

The transaction is the first known instance of money flowing from Crow to the Supreme Court justice

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Michael Hiltzik: With a $300 million donation to Harvard, a hedge fund billionaire shows why we need a wealth tax

Harvard University wants us to bow down to the exceptional generosity of Kenneth C. Griffin, a hedge fund billionaire who just made a $300 million gift to the school's graduate program.

Chicago Sun-Times

Clarence Thomas scandal: 4-alarm fire or much ado about nothing? Truth is in between

Justice failed to live out the ideal that justices should avoid not just impropriety, but the appearance of impropriety.

The Independent UK

Report: Thomas sold real estate to donor, didn't report deal

Conservative mega-donor Harlan Crow purchased three properties belonging to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his family, in a transaction worth more than $100,000 that Thomas never reported, according to the non-profit investigative journalism organization ProPublica

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court Justice Thomas, relatives sold family properties to wealthy GOP donor

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and relatives sold three Georgia properties that include Thomas’s boyhood home to GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow in 2014, according to a report, marking the first known instance where money flowed to the Supreme Court justice from the same Texas real estate magnate who…

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Salon

Idaho has worst-funded schools in US

Idaho spends less on schools per student than any other state. Kids are sweating, freezing and struggling to learn

Salon

Watchdog urges DOJ probe into Thomas

Campaign Legal Center says that the ethics issue has “historic implications far beyond one Supreme Court justice”

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Supreme Court justices should report lavish trips. Even those with ‘dearest friends’

In an account that reads like an installment of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” ProPublica recently reported that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips over more than two decades from Harlan Crow, a Texas real estate developer and prominent Republican donor. Among the excursions was a 2019…

The Guardian - UK

How can you comfort a sad, scared billionaire? Call them a ‘person of wealth’

The filthy rich are fighting back against wealthism. They are assisted by media allies, who urge more neutral language to describe their gold-plated plight, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Salon

Dems send warning to Roberts over Thomas

If “the Court does not resolve this issue on its own, the Committee will consider legislation to resolve it"

Salon

Army lets violent soldiers avoid trial

Soldiers leave the Army with a negative discharge and little record of the allegations against them

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Clarence Thomas, a billionaire benefactor and the Supreme Court’s ethics crisis

On Thursday, ProPublica revealed that a right-wing billionaire has secretly funded a lavish lifestyle for Justice Clarence Thomas. Then on Friday, a federal judge in Texas tried to block the use around the country of mifepristone, the medication used in half of all abortions. These two dramatic twists are part…

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