i get it. rachel, before you go, i don t think you can guess the one thing that clarence thomas and i have in common. and i will give you a hand, it is a career ambition that neither one of us realized. is it related to bribery? it is the last thing you would guess ever went through my mind. but clarence thomas, at least, partially gets to dress as one of these and that is a catholic priest. [laughter] clarence thomas actually was in the seminary studying to be a priest before going off into law. and when i was a ten year old altar boy, and by far, the most solemn altar boy you have ever seen. it went through my mind, more as a performance thing because you are up there on the stage, i mean alter, and you are in a supporting role and you think maybe should i move up to the big role? lawrence, i feel like this is one of those things that could get real deep real fast, but i should probably leave it right there. it is going to get deeper in this show right before we b
on a real vote and it said roe and then the other side said wade, are o w versus wade on a robot. i thought it pretty fantastic. i get it. rachel, before you go, i don t think you can guess the one thing that clarence thomas and i have in common. and i will give you a hand, it is a career ambition that neither one of us realized. is it related to bribery? it is the last thing you would guess everyone through my mind. but clarence thomas, at least, partially gets to dress as one of these and that is a catholic priest. [laughter] clarence thomas actually was in the seminary starting to be a priest before going off into law. and when i was a ten year old altar boy, and by far, the most solemn altar boy you have ever seen. it went through my mind, more as a performance thing because you are up there on the stage, i mean alter, and you are in a supporting role and you think maybe should i move up to the big role? lawrence, i feel like this is one of those things that could
special security issues involved in handling the classified documents that are evidence in the case. a defendant not a says that one of his two criminal defense lawyers say they cannot be president and for that day for the hearing, special prosecutor jack smith strongly object to the delay, pointing out that the court is already ruled that walt not as local florida lawyer, quote, must be ready to adequately represent the party at anytime. jack smith s team attacked attorney stanley woodward s claim that he could not meaningfully participate in the hearing, even if his schedule allowed, because he has not yet obtained the security clearance. jack smith s team pointed out in their filing today, quote, as of this writing, mr. woodward has yet to complete his form asked as 86, which is necessary for him to receive both an interim clearance and final adjudication, despite having been put in contact with a litigation security group on
including literally putting cash in clarence thomas s pocket by buying a house that clarence thomas partially owned so that clarence thomas s mother could live in that house for free. harlan crow has interests before the supreme court as all billionaires do. the times reports that it clarence thomas s billionaire benefactors have, quote, included major donors to conservative causes with broad policy and political interests and much at stake and supreme court decisions, even if they were not directly involved in the cases. it is impossible for supreme court justices to pal around with billionaires and not bump into apparent conflicts of interest. that is why distinguished former federal judge michael a republican appointee told npr, quote, i believe that federal judges should essentially live like priests or saints or monks. as soon as you step beyond that
him? or did some piece of that last for wealth remain? enough of it seems to have remained to make clarence thomas the most publicly corrupt supreme court justice in history. as i have noted before that it is possible in the last couple of hundred years we have had a supreme court justice who is secretly more corrupt than clarence thomas, but that never became public. that is possible, but on the public record alone no supreme court justice in history has ever been more financially compromised than the man who the legal times once reported, quote, plans to be rich. this weekend the new york times added more reporting to clarence thomas s long history of accepting the equivalent of cash for travel and vacation enjoyment. the times reports, justice thomas s acceptance of such hospitality apparently predates