Dozens of former clerks to Justice Clarence Thomas penned an open letter saying the jurist's 'integrity is unimpeachable' in pushback against recent negative press.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an open letter defending him after recent news articles accused him of bending court ethics, saying that his"integrity is unimpeachable" and"his independence is unshakable." , and we have followed different paths since. But along the way, we all saw with our own eyes the same thing: His integrity is unimpeachable," the letter reads.
The lawyers described Justice Thomas’ upbringing, having"descended from West African slaves and born to a young mother, not more than 20, in segregated Georgia." The clerks wrote how Thomas as a child later packed all his belongings in"a half-filled paper grocery bag" to live with his grandparents, who enrolled him in a segregated Catholic school run by Irish nuns.Set on becoming a priest, Thomas chose seminary to finish school.
The former clerks described having a"front-row seat" to Thomas at work, calling him"a man of greatest intellect, of greatest faith, and of greatest patriotism." "Lately, the stories have questioned his integrity and his ethics for the friends he keeps. They bury the lede. These friends are not parties before him as a Justice of the Court. And these stories are malicious, perpetuating the ugly assumption that the Justice cannot think for himself," they stated.
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