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Clarence Thomas

May 2024

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    Red flag? Samuel Alito scandal casts further doubt on supreme court’s impartiality

  • Middle-aged Black man with balding pate and white hair, glasses, in black judicial robes, appears to speak.

    Clarence Thomas: Washington is a ‘hideous place’ of ‘nastiness and lies’

April 2024

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    Trump immunity case suggests new role for supreme court: kingmaker

    Martin Pengelly in Washington
    Oral arguments over former president’s claim of immunity seem to have left Trump happier than the justice department
  • US-JUSTICE-SUPREME-COURT-GROUP-PHOTO<br>Associate US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poses for the official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

    Clarence Thomas absent from US supreme court with no explanation

    75-year-old justice also was not participating remotely in arguments, as justices sometimes do when they are ill
  • Leonard Leo speaks to media at Trump Tower in 2016.

    Billionaire Leonard Leo rejects Senate subpoena over supreme court gifts

    Progressive groups hail long-brewed move against influential donor but protest lack of summons for Harlan Crow

February 2024

  • This image released by HBO shows John Oliver, host of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." Oliver said Sunday that he'd achieved all he'd wanted for the show by having an Australian animal hospital's special ward to treat a chlamydia outbreak among koalas named for him. He said, "goodbye, forever, everyone," as stagehands broke up his set around him. That inspired a wave of social media posts among fans wondering if he was serious. (Eric Liebowitz/HBO via AP)

    John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court

    Late-night host gives justice, under fire over undisclosed donations, 30 days to accept offer, which includes a tour bus

December 2023

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    Clarence Thomas’s salary complaints sparked rightwing fears he would resign

  • Clarence Thomas in the Rose Garden of the White House in April 2017.

    Clarence Thomas pressured to recuse himself from Trump immunity case

November 2023

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    US supreme court announces ethics code amid pressure over gift scandals

    Code of conduct published following months of criticism of rightwing justices accepting undisclosed gifts

October 2023

  • Activists call for Senate to investigate Justices and pass binding code of ethics<br>epa10949190 Activists participate in a protest calling on the Senate leadership to investigate Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito as well as to pass a binding code of ethics for Supreme Court justices in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, USA, 30 October 2023. Most recently U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under fire for not reporting that a wealthy friend forgave a 267,000 US Dollar loan to him for the purchase of an RV (Recreational Vehicle). EPA/SHAWN THEW

    Democrats plan to subpoena Leonard Leo over perks to supreme court justices

  • Swearing-in Ceremony of the Honorable Amy Coney Barrett, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. - 26 Oct 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by White House/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock (10977176p) President DONALD TRUMP and Justice CLARENCE THOMAS at White House during Justice Barrett's swearing-in ceremony. Swearing-in Ceremony of the Honorable Amy Coney Barrett, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. - 26 Oct 2020

    Clarence Thomas failed to fully repay $267,000 loan for luxury RV, inquiry finds

September 2023

  • Clarence Thomas and John Roberts in robes talking to one another

    Chief justice urged to make Alito and Thomas step aside in megadonor cases

  • Clarence Thomas in his chambers at the US supreme court building in June 2016.

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

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

  • Ginni Thomas on Capitol Hill on 29 September.

    Ginni Thomas and rightwing activists exploited supreme court ruling – report

August 2023

  • Clarence Thomas in his chambers in 2016. Thomas is the senior conservative on a court dominated 6-3 by the right.

    Pressure grows on Clarence Thomas after more gifts from rightwing donor

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    AOC leads call for federal ethics investigation into Clarence Thomas

  • Thomas poses for a group portrait at the supreme court building in Washington, in October 2022.

    ‘Unprecedented, stunning, disgusting’: Clarence Thomas condemned over billionaire gifts

  • FILE - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas laughs before speaking to an audience at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, on Sept. 7, 2017. Records obtained by The Associated Press show that Supreme Court justices have attended publicly funded events at colleges and universities that allowed the schools to put the justices in the room with influential donors, including some whose industries have had interests before the court. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP, File)

    Supreme court justice Thomas took 38 undisclosed vacations from rich friends – report

July 2023

  • Justice Clarence Thomas in 2017.

    Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo

    Payments to Rajan Vasisht, an aide from 2019-21, underscore ties between the justice and lawyers who argue cases in front of him
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