The Latest Breaking News from Clarence Thomas

Ginni Thomas texts expose lawless SCOTUS

Chief Justice John Roberts argued the court did not need an ethics code. How's that working out?

Salon · Apr 21, 2022

For Black Republicans, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an obligatory fiction

From Herschel Walker to Tim Scott, denying racism and extolling self-reliance is the Republican party line

The Guardian - US · Apr 21, 2022

Clarence Thomas and his wife's text messages highlight missing ethics rules at the Supreme Court

Time and time again, the nation’s highest court has come under fire for failing to manage potentially unethical behavior by its justices.

The Conversation · Apr 21, 2022

As Donald Trump tried to hold onto the White House, the wife of a Supreme Court justice picked up her phone

The spouses of Supreme Court justices rarely make the news. But Ginni Thomas is becoming more famous than her husband as her politics shift from conservative to controversial.

ABC News · Apr 18, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas returns to bench after illness, hospitalization

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas returned to the bench on Monday after a serious illness that kept him out of public view during a controversy over his wife’s support for former President Donald Trump’s election lies.

Tribune News Service · Apr 18, 2022

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Ends His Onerous Truck Inspection Order Impeding International Commerce on the Mexican Border

The inspections caused great economic harm, and may also have violated the Dormant Foreign Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

Reason · Apr 16, 2022

Rekha Basu: Chuck Grassley had a chance to restore bipartisan confidence. He passed

I feel stupid for having dared to hope Sen. Chuck Grassley would make the leap to vote for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson getting on the Supreme Court. Thankfully, she made it through without the support of Iowa's senior senator. But the victory could have been sweeter, the moment more memorable,…

Tribune News Service · Apr 13, 2022

Jay Ambrose: The left is guilty and Clarence Thomas is innocent

Clarence Thomas is an incredibly inspiring justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, a champion of clarity, logic and the actual meaning of the Constitution, absolutely steadfast in his devotion to rule of law over the worship of ideological certitudes. You know what all of this means, right? If he is…

Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2022

Editorial: Lessons learned from Ketanji Brown Jackson

Lacking any valid reason to reject Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, some Senate Republicans chose an utterly pointless pretext: her refusal to say whether she supports packing the court with more justices, as some of its critics advocate.

Tribune News Service · Apr 9, 2022

Clarence Thomas poses with Senate candidate Herschel Walker in Supreme Court photo

WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas spent time at the U.S. Supreme Court this week with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker, posing for a photo tweeted out by the former football star’s campaign spokesperson.

Tribune News Service · Apr 9, 2022