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The justice spoke to President-elect Donald Trump on the phone hours before Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop his ...

The Supreme Court decides on and interprets material related to the five core tenets of American political development: ...

The federal courts will not refer complaints that Justice Clarence Thomas violated ethics laws to the Department of Justice for investigation. The national policymaking body for the federal courts on ...

The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the ...

The federal judiciary’s policymaking body will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji ...

Democratic senators have released a final report uncovering additional luxury trips taken by Supreme Court Justice Clarence ...

Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia. The report alleges that the three justices separately failed to appropriately disclose lavish gifts and trips from wealthy benefactors, often including ...

Thomas Gaither, one of the Black young men in the “Friendship Nine” who went to jail in Rock Hill in 1961 in protest of racial segregation, died Monday in Pennsylvania, his son Kenn Gaither said.

One trip took place that July by private jet from Nebraska to Saranac, N.Y., where Justice Thomas stayed at Mr. Crow’s upstate retreat for five days. The other came in October, when Mr. Crow hosted ...

A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators into U.S. Supreme Court ethics has revealed more luxury travel by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas and called for Congress to establish a ...

WASHINGTON — A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new ...