I’ll have to admit that I didn’t make it all the way through the article in the Times to which this post refers. It’s yet another story about the ethical blindness of Clarence Thomas. The story concerns the largesse shown by right wing millionaire Harlan Crow to Thomas. My overall impression is that his friend is just paying him to be a good little judgie, and that you couldn’t prove a quid pro quo:
The two men met in the mid-1990s, a few years after Justice Thomas joined the court. Since then, Mr. Crow has done many favors for the justice and his wife, Virginia, helping finance a Savannah library project dedicated to Justice Thomas, presenting him with a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass and reportedly providing $500,000 for Ms. Thomas to start a Tea Party-related group. They have also spent time together at gatherings of prominent Republicans and businesspeople at Mr. Crow’s Adirondacks estate and his camp in East Texas.
This won’t bring Thomas down, just as his more obvious problem with his financial disclosures will not bring him down. It’s always okay if you’re a Republican. But I do know this: Poor Frederick Douglass must want his bible back. Thomas must be a highly deluded man if he identifies with Douglass.
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