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This is Marisa Maleck We both went to the University of Chicago Law School, were members of the Federalist Society (she was President), worked on class projects, and went to church together She ended up clerking on the US Supreme Court for Justice Thomas and was a Partner at King & Spalding Unfortunately I learned that she died unexpectedly earlier this week She was a brilliant lawyer, a devout Catholic, a loyal friend, and a courageous warrior for conservative values I was planning to reach out to her soon to reconnect, but unfortunately now I can’t She was as kind...

Media reports on alleged scandals surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas reveal the Left’s desire to destroy his credibility, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. After the ProPublica report on Thomas’ acceptance of expense-paid trips from his friend, billionaire real estate developer Harlan Crow, which Thomas said his colleagues assured him was not reportable, multiple other reports were released accusing Thomas of wrongdoing. Lawyers told the Daily Caller News Foundation the reports are incomplete, amounting to a smear campaign aimed at swaying public perception, joining two federal judges who also criticized the reports this week. “With each new hit piece,...

"It's the economy stupid" Legendary Democrat Political Consultant James Carville-1992 Who do the Republicans and Democrats turn up the heat on social issues? So they can deflect from the economic issues that potentially could hurt both of them. When the economy is bad all incumbent politicians regardless of label are threatened... Every issue from Donald Trump to Hunter Biden to name the issue a distraction from the economic train running off the cliff the debt ceiling issue looms large Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden will have to "cut a deal" sooner or later. The US dollar is under pressure its...

No other Supreme Court justice has faced the unrelenting 30-year leftist lynching of Clarence Thomas. Even Justice Kavanaugh, whose hoax persecution was closely modeled on Anita Hill, was largely limited to an effort to sink his nomination. Leftist rage against Thomas has been sustained for decades by his strong conservative principles and the inconvenient fact that he is a black man and the left’s illegitimate power derives from claiming that it is protecting black people from oppression… by a black justice. The latest round of leftist attacks have gone after Justice Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, and Leola Thomas, his 94-year-old...

Insufferable New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman apparently didn’t think his strategy through before he tried to caricature Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as some kind of rich elitist. Krugman’s latest drivel celebrated the George Soros-funded ProPublica’s so-called “remarkable” attack piece against Thomas for his allegedly luxurious relationship with billionaire Harlan Crow. The ProPublica piece tried to artificially generate a phony scandal over things related to Thomas’ “lavish” trips on Crow’s yacht and private jet. Krugman used the report to pontificate about inequality: “It turns out that over the years Thomas, who has portrayed himself as a man of...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) once claimed he had only a "vague recollection" of and hadn't looked at the anti-Semitic speeches made by his uncle in the 1990s, but a 1992 editorial by the Democratic leader uncovered by CNN shows he defended his uncle, his comments, and notorious anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Jeffries’s uncle, Leonard Jeffries, faced backlash in the 1990s for his comments accusing "rich Jews" of being responsible for the slave trade and alleging the existence of "a conspiracy, planned and plotted" by Jewish executives in Hollywood to portray black people poorly. Farrakhan...

The left’s assault on the Supreme Court is continuing, and the latest front is the news that Justice Clarence Thomas has a rich friend who has hosted the Justice on his private plane, his yacht, and his vacation resort. That’s it. That’s the story. Yet this non-bombshell has triggered breathless claims that the Court must be investigated, and that Justice Thomas must resign or be impeached. Those demands give away the real political game here. *** ProPublica, a left-leaning website, kicked off the fun with a report Thursday that Justice Thomas has a longtime friendship with Harlan Crow, a wealthy...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday said he “was advised” that he did not have to disclose a series of trips reportedly paid for by a Republican mega-donor. The trips, which were revealed on Thursday by a ProPublica investigation, led to outrage from Democrats and judicial watchdog groups. COURT BATTLES Clarence Thomas says he ‘was advised’ he didn’t have to disclose trips paid for by GOP donor BY ZACH SCHONFELD - 04/07/23 11:26 AM ET SHARE TWEET Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday said he “was advised” that he did not have to disclose a series of trips...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday responded to the latest media witch hunt. Propublica on Thursday launched an attack on Clarence Thomas because he took vacations with a billionaire Republican donor. Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni were treated to lavish vacations by Harlan Crow, a prominent Republican donor. The Democrat-media complex attacked Clarence Thomas for taking vacations with a friend and are now demanding accountability. Last month the federal judiciary changed the rules and said private jet travel paid for by others must be disclosed. Clarence Thomas released a statement on his private jet travels paid for by...

The report delves into multiple instances over the years where the conservative justice and his wife, Ginni, were treated to lavish vacations, yacht cruises, and flights on a private jet, all on the dime of billionaire real estate developer [and Republican megadonor] Harlan Crow.

Cobb's state senators split along party lines over a proposal to install a statue of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds of the state CapitolAs we’ve previously documented, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ mere existence routinely brings out the absolute worst from his woke critics on the left, not just because he’s so good at what he does but also because he’s a black man who unapologetically dared to stray from Democratic orthodoxy, never looking back.A favorite attack line of some of Thomas’ more unhinged critics is that he’s a sellout to his race (and, by extension,...

Federal judges are not historians, but they are increasingly obligated to play them on the bench. In his Bruen decision last June, Justice Clarence Thomas ordered courts to assess the constitutionality of modern-day gun restrictions by searching for “historical analogues” from 1791, when the Second Amendment was ratified. Ever since, judges have struggled mightily with this task—in part because most have no training in real historical analysis, but also because the record is often spotty and contradictory. In light of Bruen’s maximalist language, they have erred on the side of gun owners, finding a constitutional right to buy a gun...

Justice Clarence Thomas pressed North Carolina’s solicitor general to explain how the University of North Carolina defines diversity during oral arguments on Monday in a Supreme Court case centered around the use of race as a factor in college admissions. “I’ve heard the word diversity quite a few times and I don’t have a clue what it means,” said Thomas. “It seems to mean everything for everyone.” Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) has challenged the race-based admissions policies of both Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), accusing both schools of discriminating against Asian-American applicants. The...

Strawbridge said the university only implemented its current policy as Jackson described until after SFFA filed its lawsuit. Jackson also noted that schools often consider students' non-race characteristics, including whether they are veterans and if they are parents, in admissions. "What you're advocating, is that in the context of a holistic review process, the university can take into account and value all of the other background and personal characteristics of other applicants, but they can't value race," Jackson added. "What I'm worried about, is that seems to me to have the potential of causing more of an equal protection problem...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals strikes again! The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s motion to expedite its appeal to Judge Aileen Cannon’s order appointing a special master to oversee the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. The DOJ last Friday moved to expedite its appeal of Cannon’s order appointing Raymond Dearie as special master. “The Justice Department is asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to order all papers be filed in the case by Nov. 11, and hold any necessary hearing in the case as soon as that briefing is completed.” Reuters reported. The...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his political activist wife, Ginni, are a high-profile Washington conservative power couple. Power couples are a common Washington phenomenon. Each spouse wields political power and influence in a certain arena. Together they concentrate power and influence. Per Public Citizen, of the 115th Congress, 59% of retiring congressmen remained in Washington, taking jobs as lobbyists or in consulting firms, trade groups or business groups, working to influence government. So, we have power couples that are in office, that were in office – congressmen and ex-congressmen, federal regulators and former regulators, lawyers, etc. But there is...

Former President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the legal battle over government documents the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate, a Tuesday filing shows.Trump’s legal team asked Justice Clarence Thomas to issue an emergency order authorizing the special master’s authority to review over 100 documents seized from Mar-a-Lago with classified markings.The request was directed to Justice Thomas because he oversees the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled last month that special master Raymond Dearie cannot review the documents that were marked classified.The 11th Circuit also ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)...

After the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was rebuked by the House Jan. 6 Select Committee chairman for concerns about 2020 election integrity, former President Donald Trump came to Ginni Thomas' defense Friday."Congratulations to Ginni Thomas for having the courage of her convictions," Trump wrote in a Save America PAC statement posted to Truth Social. "Most importantly, she is right. The election was rigged and stolen, and everyone knows it — especially the radical left Democrats who are destroying our country."Cheating on elections is the only thing they do really well, and that's because weak Republicans and RINOs...

Andrew Weissmann, the lead prosecutor for former special counsel Robert Mueller, said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was a “whack job” who could be in legal peril over her actions surrounding the 2020 presidential election. Discussing Thomas testifying before the January 6 House Select Committee, Weissmann said, “There’s also sort of her as an exhibit, where I mean, just to put it in your vernacular, she comes off like a whack job. There’s no evidence of the election being stolen. We are a bunch of adults having this conversation, but there’s...

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Thursday on his show “The Lead” it is “wild” that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is so “untethered from all of the facts and evidence” she still believes former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Tapper said, “Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist, and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, met today with Jan. 6 House Select Committee. Her lawyers stressed it was a voluntary interview, even though members of the panel have wanted to speak to her for some time about her involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020...