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This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugat's Podcast.

He is an award-winning journalist for ProPublica,

the independent newsroom that produces some of the best

and most impactful journalism you will find anywhere

in his latest investigation, the headline is Clarence Thomas

and the billionaire.

It exposes corruption at the highest levels of power

and privilege.

Thank you, Justin, for joining us.

Can you tell me how this story came to be?

Yeah, well, my colleagues and I got interested

in the Supreme Court and we started looking at travel

by Supreme Court justices.

You know, people may remember Justice Anthony and Scalia

actually died several years ago on a private hunting ranch

in Texas with some business men.

So we'd always been interested in this topic

and then we heard about initially one trip

that Clarence Thomas took on this billionaire's private jet

and then we dug into it and started talking to people

and kind of snowballed from there.

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