Can an obscure council of judges solve the Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas problem?

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Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 2007.

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Clarence Thomas, who accepted lavish gifts from a billionaire, argued that a law prohibiting taking bribes is too vague to be fairly enforced

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Justice Elena Kagan was worried about the ethics of accepting bagels from friends, while Clarence Thomas was enjoying expensive vacations paid for by a GOP megadonor: report

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Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan (l) and Clarence Thomas

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2 Supreme Court justices failed to recuse themselves from cases involving their publisher after receiving large amounts in book advances and royalties

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A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019.

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Kellyanne Conway is now caught up in Clarence Thomas' latest ethics scandal

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Kellyanne Conway (left) in 2020 and Clarence Thomas (right) in 2009.

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Secret billionaire benefactors, mysterious debt, undisclosed real estate deals, millions in headhunting fees, and more: All of the ethics questions hanging over the Supreme Court

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Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, and Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni was paid nearly $100,000 for 'consulting' by a nonprofit that ended up filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court: report

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Virginia “Ginni” Thomas at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 23, 2017.

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Clarence Thomas — who let a GOP megadonor foot bills for him for years — said being a Supreme Court justice 'is not worth doing for what they pay'

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Clarence Thomas, US Supreme Court Associate Justice, in December 1993.
Clarence Thomas, US Supreme Court Associate Justice, in December 1993.

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A group of Democratic senators want to withhold $10 million in Supreme Court funding until it adopts a public code of ethics: report

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett to be the U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice on the South Lawn of the White House October 26, 2020.

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The same year Clarence Thomas sent a child to a private boarding school on Harlan Crow's dime, a parent testified that the academy used children for free labor

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

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