• Mark Paoletta, a longtime friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and lawyer to his wife, defended Thomas in a lengthy statement on Thursday after another left-wing publication ran a hit piece on the 74-year-old justice.
• ProPublica reported on Thursday that GOP billionaire donor Harlan Crow paid thousands of dollars for private schooling for a great nephew of Thomas that he raised as a son for more than a decade.
• The report suggested that Thomas did something wrong because he did not disclose the payments as gifts.

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