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The trips Justice Clarence Thomas took with Harlan Crow — that we know of

Justice Clarence Thomas has taken several trips with GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow in recent years. Democrats released new documents last week saying Thomas failed to disclose three additional trips. Here is a list of the trips Thomas and Crow have taken together — that we know of. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is once again facing […]

Clarence Thomas took additional trips funded by Harlan Crow, senator reveals

The US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas took at least three additional trips funded by the billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow that the conservative justice failed to disclose, the chair of the Senate judiciary committee said on Thursday. Crow, a Texas businessman and Republican donor, disclosed details about the justice’s travel between 2017 and 2021 in […]

Praising the Jim Crow era? That’s a red flag

Jim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump — there was a filibuster contesting the results — Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from former Confederate states. […]

Byron Donalds implied Black people were better off under Jim Crow. So we checked.

OPINION: We fact-checked Republican Byron Donalds’ claims about Black families, conservative values and progress during America’s racial apartheid era. Here’s what we found. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Byron Donalds is usually wrong. To be fair, as one of […]

Clarence Thomas belatedly discloses lavish travel expenses paid for by Harlan Crow

Justice Clarence Thomas belatedly acknowledged that Republican billionaire Harlan Crow paid for Thomas’ accommodations during trips in 2019 to Bali and Sonoma County — a disclosure that comes amid unprecedented scrutiny of the Supreme Court and the wealthy benefactors close to the justices. The acknowledgment of Crow’s largesse was included in an annual financial disclosure […]

Rep. Byron Donalds defends comments about Jim Crow

Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida on Thursday defended comments he made this week that invoked Jim Crow — a period of racial violence and segregation — as an era when “the Black family was together.” “I never said that it was better for Black people in Jim Crow,” Donalds, a Florida Republican, told MSNBC’s Joy […]

Republican lawmaker defends Jim Crow comments after criticism from Black Democrats

By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Black U.S. Republican lawmaker said his comments expressing nostalgia for the Jim Crow era were taken out of context after Democrats criticised his words as outrageous and ignorant. Representative Byron Donalds, a second-term congressman and former candidate for House speaker, expressed nostalgia for the Jim Crow era – […]

Byron Donalds Says ‘During Jim Crow, The Black Family Was Together’

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) suggested on Tuesday that Black American families were more “together” during the era of legal segregation known as Jim Crow. Speaking with Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) during a Black voter outreach event for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Donalds said 20th-century welfare policies supported by Democrats hurt Black families. “You […]