The Media Mob Versus Clarence Thomas

The Media Mob Versus Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett to be the U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice on the South Lawn of the White House on Oct. 26, 2020. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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Earlier this month, ProPublica triggered a media frenzy by publishing a story about Justice Clarence Thomas’s friendship with billionaire Harlan Crow and how that friendship included the Thomases having been Crow’s guests on multiple expensive vacations. On April 13, ProPublica published a follow-up story, this time about Crow’s purchase of some modestly priced properties owned by the Thomas family.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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