friend,

Every day we get new revelations of the depravity of Justice Clarence Thomas. Just to recap, Clarence Thomas had a GOP mega donor take him on lavish trips, buy his mother's house and let her live there rent free for a decade, and pay over $100,000 for his grandnephew to attend a private boarding school — all in secret until now. This same donor funds many of the same right-wing groups that appear before the Supreme Court, and even paid for  It's not asking a lot for justices with lifetime appointments on the Supreme Court to be held to a basic code of ethical standards as a public servant! Here in the 11th, we have tens of thousands of government employees, all of whom would have been fired for this type of behavior.  

If you're amped-up like I am to get this man off the bench, pass stronger ethical standards or just simply willing to preserve our democracy, can you join me in demanding the Democratic-controlled Senate hold hearings into Justice Thomas's multiple scandals? 

For over thirty years Clarence Thomas has sat on the highest court of our nation, where he's supposed to rule on pivotal cases by being impartial and apolitical.  He and his wife have proven to be neither impartial nor apolitical, and deeply corrupt tool! If you're accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from the same person who funds many of these right-wing lawsuits you're ruling on, you've failed that test of impartiality. That's why we need an independent investigation of Clarence Thomas to seriously get him off the bench and I hope you join me in taking action!  

Let's do the Right Thing, 

Congressman Gerry Connolly
Virginia's 11th District