Since ProPublica published an article about the "friendship" between a sitting Supreme Court Justice and a real estate billionaire, most of the attention has been focused on Harlan Crow, the Nazi-memorabilia collecting nepo baby who loves lavishing exorbitant gifts on government officials. While there's certainly nothing wrong with looking deeper at the oligarch buying influence in our government, let's not get distracted from the bigger theat: what Clarence Thomas is selling.
