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May 5, 2023

Conservative Judicial Activist Secretly Funneled at Least $80,000 to Ginni Thomas
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The Washington Post reports conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo
arranged for Clarence Thomas's wife, Ginni Thomas, to be paid at least
$80,000 for consulting work over a decade ago. Leo asked the Republican
pollster at the time, Kellyanne Conway, to bill the payments to a
nonprofit group Leo advises, and specified that Ginni Thomas's name
should be left off any paperwork. That same year, in 2012, the nonprofit
filed a brief to the Supreme Court in the landmark case Shelby County v.
Holder, in which Thomas cast the deciding vote in a 5-4 ruling that
gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


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