Even Clarence Thomas’s Law Clerks Can’t Defend His Misconduct ( nymag.com )

LanyrdSkynrd , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

One of the billionaires who owns Clarence Thomas did have business before the court and he didn’t recuse himself.

fortune.com/…/clarence-thomas-billionaire-friend-…

One of his clerks received 7 payments for thousands of dollars via venmo labelled “Clarence Thomas Christmas party” from conservative lawyers who have argued cases before the court.

The lawyers who made the Venmo transactions were: Patrick Strawbridge, a partner at Consovoy McCarthy who recently successfully argued that affirmative action violated the US constitution; Kate Todd, who served as White House deputy counsel under Donald Trump at the time of the payment and is now a managing party of Ellis George Cipollone’s law office; Elbert Lin, the former solicitor general of West Virginia who played a key role in a supreme court case that limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions; and Brian Schmalzbach, a partner at McGuire Woods who has argued multiple cases before the supreme court.

theguardian.com/…/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-paym…