Clarence Thomas: Ethical Disaster
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Norm Ornstein has been studying and writing about Congress and politics for over 40 years. He is currently a Senior Emeritus Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a mostly conservative think tank. He wrote (along with Thomas E. Mann) It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism. When it came out in paperback, they changed the title to It's Even Worse Than It Looks Was. Now he says, jokingly, if they did another edition, he might call it Run for Your Lives. This is Ornstein’s fifth appearance on The Bill Press Pod, so highly does Bill value his opinions and insights.
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| 1:05.9 | Good day, good friends. Good to see you. And welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:12.6 | You know, over the years, veteran political reporters in Washington have seen just about everything. Little can surprise them. |
| 1:14.6 | But even the most jaundiced reporters have been surprised by the cascade of reports |
| 1:20.6 | that have been published by the great investigative reporting team at ProPublica |
| 1:25.6 | about all the freebies that Clarence Thomas has been |
| 1:29.3 | raking in for years from his billionaire buddy Dallas developer Harlan Crow. Thomas and his wife |
| 1:37.5 | Jenny sucked it all up. Trips on private jets, cruises on luxury yachts, vacations in first-class resorts around the world, |
| 1:46.2 | on top of which Crow even bought and refurbished Thomas's mother's home and paid private school |
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