The Latest Breaking News from Clarence Thomas

Ted Cruz urges passage of a school choice measure in Texas

The junior U.S. senator from Texas talked with the Tribune’s Patrick Svitek on why he should be reelected to a third term.

The Texas Tribune · Sep 23, 2023

Ken Burns defends Clarence Thomas photo

The filmmaker was caught taking a photo with the justice and the businessman David Koch

Salon · Sep 22, 2023

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

Senate judiciary panel member Whitehouse says ‘Oh, my’ after report links justice to hard-right Koch network

The Guardian - US · Sep 22, 2023

Clarence Thomas spoke at two donor events of ultra-right Koch network

Justice took part in fundraising events for Koch brothers’ organization which has brought cases before supreme court

The Guardian - US · Sep 22, 2023

‘You want to think America is better’: can the supreme court be saved?

Documentarian Dawn Porter’s expansive new series Deadlocked looks back at the history of an institution that has shaped the US for better and, more recently, worse

The Guardian - US · Sep 21, 2023

Ginni Thomas and rightwing activists exploited supreme court ruling – report

Ahead of Citizens United decision that unleashed dark money flood, Thomas worked with Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow

The Guardian - US · Sep 11, 2023

Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh predicts "concrete steps soon" to address ethics concerns

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has told attendees at a judicial conference in Ohio that addressing recent ethics concerns can increase public confidence in the institution

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2023

Senator files ethics complaint against supreme court justice Samuel Alito

Sheldon Whitehouse writes to Chief Justice John Roberts about ‘several’ ethics violations, citing Wall Street Journal interview

The Guardian - US · Sep 5, 2023

The NRA's toxic fuel

Guns and racism make a lethal combination in Ron DeSantis' Florida

Salon · Sep 5, 2023

Justice Clarence Thomas reports he took 3 trips on Republican donor’s plane last year

Thomas said he was complying with new guidelines for reporting travel, but he did not include any earlier travel at billionaire Harlan Crow’s expense, including a 2019 trip to Indonesia aboard his yacht.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 1, 2023