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DARK SECRETS: Us ethics watchdog calls on clarence thomas to resign over undisclosed gifts | Rare Historical Photos

Clarence Thomas
It was recently revealed that Harlan Crow paid for the private schooling of Clarence Thomas’s great-nephew. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

The conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas must resign, an ethics watchdog said on Tuesday, citing revelations about Thomas’s failure to declare lavish gifts and financial support from a Republican mega-donor, Harlan Crow.

In an open letter to Thomas, Noah Bookbinder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or Crew, cited a “grave crisis of institutional legitimacy currently facing the supreme court”.

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