Thomas Bemoans Washington DC As A “Hideous Place”

The Washington Post reports:

After facing harsh questions about his judicial decisions and accepting lavish gifts from a billionaire, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas forcefully pushed back on his critics Friday — saying he and his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, have endured “nastiness” and “lies.”

“What you are going to find, especially in Washington, is that people are going to pride themselves on being awful,” Thomas said during the hour-long conversation with U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a former clerk of his, at a judicial conference on the Gulf Coast. “It’s a hideous place.”

He told his audience that he wished he had remained a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and that he “had no interest in public life” but felt called to it by God. He did not address any recent decisions by the court.

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Justice Clarence Thomas criticized the “nastiness” and “lies” he’s faced following bombshell reports that conservative Texas billionaire Harlan Crow had funded the justice’s lavish lifestyle for decades

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