Every fresh revelation of an ethical lapse by Clarence Thomas raises the question to which Republican leaders apparently have no answer: Just how much crooked behavior by a conservative Supreme Court justice will they justify? So far, they seem utterly untroubled by Thomas’ acceptance from a right-wing billionaire of lavish vacations, jet travel, the lucrative purchase of his mother’s house and the full cost of his grandnephew’s very expensive private school tuition – or by […]

The Supreme Court’s Indelible Stain
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