Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received undisclosed trips, gifts, and lavish lifestyle access from the Horatio Alger Association, raising concerns about impartiality.
Just as a member, Thomas has been able to attend exclusive events across the country — and the world. He has attended meetings by the group’s board of directors in places like Jamaica and Vancouver, Canada, which were accompanied by events like an exclusive performance by Johnny and June Carter Cash a year before Johnny Carter’s death, or an excursion to billionaire industrialist Dennis Washington’s island property in British Columbia.
The group has responded by naming Thomas an honorary board member and naming two scholarships after his son, Jamal Thomas. Those scholarships were directed to two Virginia prep schools — a school attended by a student Thomas was mentoring and a school attended by Thomas’s great nephew. Notably, Harlan Crowto send Thomas’s great nephew, who the justice was raising as a son, to a different boarding school two years later.
“They really treated him like a brother, like he mattered and, in return, he opened up the Supreme Court,” Armstrong Williams, conservative commentator and former close friend to Thomas, who helped the justice get into the group, told“Let me tell you, Horatio Alger has been one of the best things that has ever happened to him,” Williams said. “This is also about power and prestige…. I mean, Thomas is on the Supreme Court.
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