has ties to crow, the one lone vote for the institute connected to harlon crow came from clarence thomas, plft crow's old friend on the supreme court. heard about that new multimillion dollar museum being built in clarence thomas' hometown? joining us now, attorney, blogger for the center for american progress. ian, thanks for your time. >> good to be here, thank you, rachel. >> you wrote today in think progress about these revelations in the times. and other things we've learned about justice thomas and you compared him to former supreme court justice abe fortis. that is a pretty staggering blow to levy at any sitting justice. why did you make that comparison? >> because they have so much in common. justice fortis was disgraced and forced to resign because he was caught in a gifting scandal. that was a coalition of wealthy businessmen who gave him thousands of dollars and individual sugar daddy who gave him thousands of dollars more.