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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook Deputy Editor Zach Stanton. It's Friday, May 5th.

In Washington today, everyone is going to be talking about a few big legal developments that

happened yesterday. Last night, the Washington Post had the latest in a cascade of scoops

that have dropped in recent days about embattled Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

The Post reports that just over a decade ago, longtime Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo,

arranged for Clarence Thomas's wife, Ginny, to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for

consulting work for a nonprofit that Leo advised, and that he specified that her name be left off of the billing paperwork.

That's relevant because later that same year, this nonprofit Leo was involved with,

filed a brief with the Supreme Court in Shelby v. Holder,

major voting rights case in which Thomas was part of a five to four conservative majority

that gutted a central provision

of the Voting Rights Act, which is what Leo's nonprofit advised them to do. You're going to be

hearing a lot about this in the days to come, especially since there have been so many stories

already about Clarence Thomas questioning his judgment and questioning his relationship with billionaire Harlan Crow,

and since the Senate Judiciary Committee has already been holding hearings on possible ethics reform for the High Court.

Meanwhile, a jury in Washington, D.C., convicted Enrique Tario, the former leader of the Proud Boys,

and three of his allies, of a seditious conspiracy to derail the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.

It's a historic verdict following the most significant trial that has emerged from the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

In New York, jurors for E. Jean Carroll's civil trial, in which she is accusing Donald Trump of rape,

watched about 45 minutes of a taped deposition of the former president yesterday.

In the footage, Trump repeatedly denied Carroll's allegation, but also grew agitated.

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