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Justice Thomas Defenders Make the Case for Supreme Court Ethics Reform
Republicans and conservative legal activists have pointed to alleged ethical lapses from liberal justices that serve to emphasize gaps in existing rules.
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GOP Megadonor Paid Private School Tuition for Justice Thomas' Grandnephew, Pro Publica Reports
The wealthy Republican donor who has come under fire for lavish gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defended the latest revelation on Thursday, that he paid thousands in school tuition for one of the justice’s relatives.
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Chief Justice Roberts Declines Senate Request to Testify on Court Ethics
Chief Justice John Roberts has declined a request from the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify at a hearing next week on ethical standards at the court, instead providing the panel with a statement of ethics reaffirmed by the court’s justices.
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Concerns About Justice Clarence Thomas' Disclosures Sent to Judicial Panel
A pair of Democratic lawmakers asked the U.S. Judicial Conference to weigh in on Thomas’ failure to disclose gifts and luxury travel he allegedly accepted from a GOP billionaire.
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Clarence Thomas Sold Real Estate to GOP Donor and Didn't Disclose Deal, Report Finds
The 2014 real estate deal shines a new light on Thomas’s decades old relationship with Crow, a real estate magnate and longtime financier for conservative causes.
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Justice Clarence Thomas Explains Failure to Report Trips Paid for by Conservative Billionaire
Thomas issued statement in response to ProPublica report about trips he took that were paid for by billionaire Harlan Crow.
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Justice Thomas Reportedly Took Undisclosed Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
ProPublica is reporting that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms.
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Ginni Thomas, Wife of Supreme Court Justice, Urged Lawmakers to Overturn Trump Election Loss in Wisconsin, Report Says
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas also urged the Trump White House chief of staff to try to overturn President Joe Biden’s election win.
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This Photo of Clarence Thomas Went Viral After Abortion Ruling — But It's From 2018
A photo of Ginni Thomas and husband Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas drinking an expensive bottle of wine went viral after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision. But a simple reverse image search shows the photo is actually from 2018, MediaWise campus correspondent Loren Miranda explains.
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Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Don't Contain Fetal Tissue
Despite persistent claims to the contrary, none of the three authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccines contains fetal tissue. In an early phase of development, two of the coronavirus shots — the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna — were tested in cell lines that were long ago made from an aborted fetus. And the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is manufactured…
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Justice Thomas Cites Debunked Claim That COVID Vaccines Are Made With Cells From ‘Aborted Children'
Thomas cited the claims in a dissent to the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up a challenge by health care workers who opposed New York’s vaccine mandate on religious grounds.
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Ginni Thomas' Lawyer Wants ‘Better Justification' for Her Giving Testimony to Jan. 6 Panel
An attorney representing Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is pushing back on a request from the House Jan. 6 committee for her testimony. In an eight-page letter to the committee, obtained by NBC News on Wednesday, Ginni Thomas’ lawyer, Mark R. Paoletta, argued that he has not seen any reason for her to...
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Here's What the 9 Supreme Court Justices Said About Abortion During Their Confirmation Hearings
All of the Supreme Court justices were questioned about their judicial beliefs on the legal precedent of Roe v. Wade during their senate confirmation hearings. Here’s what they had to say.
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Thomas Wants the Supreme Court to Overturn Landmark Rulings That Legalized Contraception, Same-Sex Marriage
In a concurring opinion to the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, the conservative jurist called on the court to overrule a trio of watershed civil rights rulings, writing, “We have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”
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Ginni Thomas' Emails Deepen Her Involvement in 2020 Election
Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative political activist, urged Republican lawmakers in Arizona after the 2020 presidential election to choose their own slate of electors, arguing that results giving Joe Biden a victory in the state were marred by fraud. The revelations first published by The Washington Post on Friday show that Thomas…
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Clarence Thomas Says Abortion Leak Has Changed Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas says that the Supreme Court has been changed by the shocking leak of a draft opinion earlier this month. That opinion suggests the court is poised to overturn the right to an abortion recognized in Roe v. Wade. The conservative Thomas joined the court in 1991 and has long called for Roe v. Wade to be overturned....
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GOP Sen. Susan Collins Says She Will Vote for Biden Supreme Court Pick Ketanji Brown Jackson, Giving Her Likely Confirmation Bipartisan Support
With Collins’ vote, Jackson, Biden’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, is now all but guaranteed to become the first Black woman to serve on the high court.
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Clarence Thomas Faces Growing Pressure to Step Aside From Jan. 6 Cases
The Democratic-controlled Congress is turning up the heat on Justice Clarence Thomas with calls for him to step back from cases involving Jan. 6, after his wife was found to have actively pressured the Trump White House to change the result of the 2020 election based on false claims of fraud. At a closed-door meeting Tuesday, House Democrats raised questions about what they could do...
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Democrats Demand Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas Recuse Himself From Key 2020 Election, Capitol Riot Cases Over Wife's Push to Overturn Biden Win
The request followed news that the justice’s wife, Virginia Thomas, urged then-President Trump’s top aide Mark Meadows to try to overturn Biden’s election win.
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Jan. 6 Riot Probe Expected to Seek Interview With Wife of Supreme Court Justice Over Texts to Trump Aide
Texts reportedly showed Thomas urging then-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to try to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.