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Do Supreme Court Justices Have Real Friends?

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11.06.2024

Orin S. Kerr | 6.10.2024 3:35 PM

I had a different reaction than Josh Blackman did to the comment of the Supreme Court's Public Information Officer Patricia McCabe about Beyoncé—it struck me as likely just McCabe's own well-meaning-but-odd comment, rather than evidence of a nefarious quid pro quo between Beyoncé and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson—but I wanted to focus instead on a comment Josh makes that strikes me as particularly unlikely to be true:

For all the outrage about Justice Thomas, no one doubts that he and Harlan Crow are genuine friends. They met nearly three decades ago, and have forged a close bond. Whatever generosity that Crow shares with Thomas is based on a kinship and........

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