If it's Thursday, another ethics controversy hits the Supreme Court, calls for accountability

grow amid new reporting that a conservative billionaire mega donor wasn't just treating Justice

Clarence Thomas to luxurious vacations. He wasn't just paying a salary to his wife. He was also

paying the tuition for one of his closest family members.

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guilty of the charge of seditious conspiracy for their actions tied to the insurrection

at the Capitol, including the far'm Chuck Todd reporting in Washington.

We're going to begin today with the crisis of confidence, the highest levels of our government,

a system too broken by hyper-partisanship to dole out any real

accountability. New reporting from ProPublica today reveals yet another troubling financial

arrangement between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his conservative billionaire mega-donor

friend Harlan Crow. ProPublica is now reporting in addition to the luxury vacations

they previously reported on. In addition to the nonprofit group, Crow funded, that paid

Jenny Thomas's salary. In addition to buying the home of Clarence Thomas' mother,

Harlan Crow is also paying school tuition for a close family member of the Thomas's,

who he was raising as a son.

They had essentially adopted them, raising them in their own house.

The price tag on those tuition payments could be as high as $150,000.

Thomas has never mentioned the tuition payments in his federal disclosures,

though ProPublican notes that he once did disclose a smaller $5,000 gift from another friend that indeed did go towards the tuition.

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