The Latest Smear of Clarence Thomas: His Friends Defend Him

The latest left-wing attack on the justice is that those who know him dare to rebut vicious attacks on him.

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks in his chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2016.

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Since 2020, when the Supreme Court finally had a working majority of justices faithful to the Constitution and no longer interested in acting as a super-legislature imposing progressive policies such as abortion and affirmative action, the Left and its media allies have engaged in a coordinated attack on the court’s credibility and the integrity. Because they can’t actually prove any corruption, they lob vague accusations of “ethics concerns” or “inappropriate access” at justices in an attempt to muddy the water and convince the American public there’s something nefarious happening behind the scenes when there is not.

In April, ProPublica (which is funded by left-wing donors and activist groups) launched the latest in this series of partisan assaults on the court with insinuations that somehow Supreme Court justices can be bought by friends with travel and nice accommodations. Of course, the concern is only with Republican-appointed justices, despite Democrat-appointed justices participating in similar or even more grand adventures, such as Justice Breyer being flown around the world on at least eight trips all paid for by the well-known Democrat Pritzker family organizations.

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Mark Paoletta

Mark Paoletta is a partner at Schaerr Jaffe and a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America. He served in the George H. W. Bush and Trump administrations and worked on the confirmations of Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. Disclosure: He remains close friends with Thomas, has co-edited the book Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, and has gone on trips with him and Harlan Crow, with whom he is also friends. He also represented Ginni Thomas in the House Select January 6 Committee inquiry.

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