No clarity from Clarence: More entanglements between Crow and Thomas raise questions

Investigative outlet ProPublica is like a dog with a bone, revealing now that real estate baron Harlan Crow paid for years of pricey private school tuition for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ great-nephew Mark Martin, whom the jurist had taken legal custody of and had been raising as a son. Thomas’ defenders should have kept their powder dry after the first revelations, as their first excuses look increasingly asinine beside the drip-drip of financial entanglements. The “Crow’s just giving hospitality to an old friend” rebukes have given way to the even more absurd “Crow is simply helpi...