A friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says a highly publicized media report that accused the justice of violating ethical norms contained “old news” and failed to disclose that Thomas was cleared of accusations of wrongdoing “more than a decade ago.”
Left-wing criticism of Thomas and the Supreme Court as an institution has escalated since the unprecedented leak last year of a draft court opinion that led to the June 2022 reversal of the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion precedent. Another decision the same month that bolstered Second Amendment rights also came under heavy fire from critics.
The homes of Thomas and other conservative justices have been picketed and the justices themselves have been targeted by activists who have used social media in an effort to generate flash mobs to assemble on a moment’s notice to protest and harass members of the court spotted in public. One man was arrested in connection with a plot to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh….