A composite image of Clarence Thomas (left) and Attorney General Merrick Garland (right).
Clarence Thomas (left) and Attorney General Merrick Garland (right).
  • Democratic Senators asked Merrick Garland for a special counsel investigation into Clarence Thomas.
  • They seek to probe Thomas's ethics and the "serious possibility" of tax fraud from undeclared gifts.
  • Thomas's financial ties to billionaire Harlan Crow and other elites have drawn increasing scrutiny.

Two Democratic senators have called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to open a special counsel investigation into Clarence Thomas.