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Martin Pengelly in Washington DC

Revelations of Clarence Thomas’s Koch links stoke supreme court reform calls

Clarence Thomas in his chambers at the US supreme court building in June 2016.
Clarence Thomas in his chambers at the US supreme court building in June 2016. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

A report detailing how Clarence Thomas secretly participated in donor events staged by the hard-right Koch network drew more fierce protests and outrage over the conservative supreme court justice’s proliferating ethics scandals.

Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee who has advanced ethics reform amid reports about Thomas and other justices, said: “Oh, my.

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