propublica reports crow paid the tuition for thomas grand nephew who thomas considers his son. and who he had legal custody of, to not one but two boarding schools. and we don t know how much crow paid, but propublica estimates it could be in excess of $150,000. in a statement, crow said that justice thomas didn t ask for the money. additionally, he told propublica he has long been passionate about the importance of quality education and giving back to those less fortunate, especially at-risk youth. at-risk youth? according to a thomas friend, crow paid the schools directly on behalf of the justice and thomas was not required to disclose the tuition payments to schools because his great nephew did not fit the definition of a dependent child under the ethics in government act. interestingly, the thomases did not reject the payment for their grand nephew, just to recap, mr. crow has reportedly paid for clarence thomas private jet rides, his yacht cruises and
weeks through terrific reporting. mostly senator clarence thomas, and mostly around harlan you, but allegations around justice gorsuch about supreme court justices not reporting these extravagant gifts it would seem, and one wonders about not refusing themselves from cases that may be pertinent to the people involved. it s raised a whole host of questions, and we should remind everyone that it was clarence thomas s wife who was working with mark meadows and others in the white house to seemingly try to overturn election results back in 2020. justice thomas didn t recuse himself for that either. there are a whole lot of democrats who are hopping mad about this. senator durbin, the chair of the judiciary committee, when he held that hearing this week, we talked to him on morning joe, he was deeply disappointed that chief justice roberts did not show. roberts who says he s an institutionalist, who cares about the reputation of the court, but yet didn t partake in this. i think it was ac
what it s like to be a foster child, to be in the streets, and to try and find a way to survive. this is a brother who was trying his best to survive and did it through entertainment, through performing. i knew him from that aspect. didn t even know he was homeless. but i have seen so many people have to resort to becoming street performers like brother jordan was, and when you re that young and you don t have help, because there s so many i hear you, brother. i do. and you know, rev, it s giving bernie getz, this whole incident, the fact this man was not arrested, the fact we re not getting his name. it s giving eric garner, it s giving a lot of things that we
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that would have punished teachers and opened them up to lawsuits. the idea was this. if a student was, for example, scared to tell his or her family that they were gay or transgender or thinking about those issues the student decided instead to talk totheir teacher about it, well, this arizona law would create an affirmative legal obligation for the teacher, forcing the teacher to call the student s parent and tell them. and if the teacher didn t do it, arizona republicans said that teacher should lose his or her liesance and it should be okay for the teacher it be sued as an individual. during that same session republicans also pushed legislation that would have banned books like maya angelou s book i know why the caged bird sings or george orwell s 1984 or the great gatsby. critics say because of the way that bill was originally crafted it would have made it illegal to