Five days before Michael Kirk’s documentary about the love and lives of Clarence and Ginni Thomas was set to air on PBS, ProPublica dropped another bombshell story about the power couple.
The supreme court justice and his conservative activist wife had been accepting private school tuition payments on behalf of the great-nephew they are raising as their son. The funds came from Harlan Crow, the far-right Texas billionaire who has also been in the hot seat for bankrolling the couple’s luxury vacations. “This thing that I do for a living is exhilarating, and a little bit terrifying,” Kirk said as he and his team geared up for a long weekend of reworking the final cut.
