Clarence Thomas' Wife and Her Job on the Supreme Court

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Clarence Thomas had a stake in to a lawyer at a major law firm and that he sold it, I think it was nine days after he became a justice. John Roberts' wife is essentially a headhunter for corporations and law firms looking for top employees. She's made about $10 million over the years; some of these firms have had business before the court.

In a hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee took on the Supreme Court’s lack of ethics standards. ProPublica’s Joshua Kaplan explains how his reporting on Justice Clarence Thomas’s history of accepting gifts from a conservative megadonor led to increased scrutiny of the court.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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