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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Bowden

Pelosi accuses SCOTUS Justice Thomas’s wife of being a ‘proud contributor to a coup’

(Associated Press)

Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a withering condemnation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday as it becomes clear that the highest court’s ethical standards and practices are facing historic scrutiny.

At her weekly press briefing, the House Democratic leader told reporters that she never believed that Mr Thomas should have joined the Supreme Court in the first place, and added that his wife had been revealed as a “admitted and proud contributor to a coup of our country”.

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