Clarence Thomas was deep in debt when he hinted to a GOP lawmaker that he'd quit if he didn't get a pay raise: report

• Justice Clarence Thomas pushed a House Republican in 2000 to get justices a pay rise, a report says.
• ProPublica quoted Thomas telling the lawmaker that "one or more justices will leave soon" if there was no raise.
• Thomas' reported concerns were later relayed to Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas alarmed a then-House Republican about the possibility he might resign in 2000 if Congress didn't raise justices' pay.