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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor <[link removed]> Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge. by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski

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