Several lawyers who have handled cases before the Supreme Court, including one who successfully argued for the elimination of race-based affirmative action at colleges, sent money to a top aide of Justice Clarence Thomas, according to the aide's now-private Venmo transaction history.
The lawyers sent what appeared to be payments for Thomas' 2019 Christmas party to Rajan Vasisht, an aide in Thomas' chamber from July 2019 to July 2021. The transactions "seem to underscore the close ties between Thomas, who is embroiled in ethics scandals following a series of revelations about his relationship with a wealthy billionaire donor, and certain senior Washington lawyers who argue cases and have other business in front of the justice," according to The Guardian,
