{"id":1969313,"date":"2023-07-11T03:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T07:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-clarence-thomas-corruption-shocker-he-belongs-to-group-that-helps-poor-kids-go-to-college\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T03:47:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T07:47:58","slug":"latest-clarence-thomas-corruption-shocker-he-belongs-to-group-that-helps-poor-kids-go-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-clarence-thomas-corruption-shocker-he-belongs-to-group-that-helps-poor-kids-go-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas involved in group aiding underprivileged students&#8217; college aspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flatest-clarence-thomas-corruption-shocker-he-belongs-to-group-that-helps-poor-kids-go-to-college%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1969313&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p><strong>In the latest smear of Clarence Thomas,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/04\/those-smearing-scotus-are-the-biggest-threat-to-american-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times reports<\/a> that the justice has been a longtime member of an \u201celite circle\u201d known as the Horatio Alger Association.<\/p>\n<p>This dubious syndicate of wealthy Americans, named after \u201cthe Gilded Age author whose rags-to-riches novels represented an aspirational version of Justice Thomas\u2019 own bootstraps origin story,\u201d has handed out around $245 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">college scholarships<\/a> to approximately 35,000 students. But it doesn\u2019t stop there, I\u2019m afraid. The Times reports that Thomas \u2014 and you may want to sit down for this \u2014 was \u201cmeeting with and mentoring the recipients of millions of dollars a year in Horatio Alger college scholarships, many of whom come from backgrounds that mirror his own.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-682811242\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2ee4f732a5a8d0a3309e186b38a351fe fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2ee4f732a5a8d0a3309e186b38a351fe\"><\/div>\n<p>Now, I don\u2019t even feign to grasp the journalistic virtuosity needed to be a New York Times reporter, but my amateur guess is that the Horatio Alger Association really blew Thomas\u2019 cover when publicly giving him an award and then listing his, <a href=\"https:\/\/horatioalger.org\/members\/about-our-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and every members\u2019<\/a>, name on its website. As Star Chambers go, this has to be one of the sloppiest.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the piece begins with a grainy picture of Thomas, almost always depicted as a puppet, at an event receiving an award from three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-clarence-thomas-corruption-shocker-he-belongs-to-group-that-helps-poor-kids-go-to-college\/\" title=\"Clarence Thomas involved in group aiding underprivileged students' college aspirations\">rich white dudes \u2014 falsely insinuating<\/a> that the entire affair was a secret. The Horatio Alger Association, the subhead tells us, \u201cbrought the justice access to wealthy members and unreported V.I.P. treatment,\u201d and in turn, Thomas \u201coffered another kind of access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Another<\/em> kind of access? The Times wants you to imagine a gaggle of QAnoners sneaking into SCOTUS chambers and editing majority opinions, but Thomas\u2019 favor to these alleged benefactors is hosting a small ceremony for the winners of the Horatio Alger award for charitable giving at the Supreme Court. You can read all about it right there <a href=\"https:\/\/horatioalger.org\/horatio-alger-award\/induction-ceremonies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on the website<\/a>, along with the names of the award winners, who are largely apolitical former CEOs and generous donors to numerous charities.<\/p>\n<p>One of the keys to convincing credulous leftists that a conspiracy is afoot is to frame the Horatio Alger Association as a \u201cconservative\u201d cabal where corrupt schemes to steal democracy are hatched. And while the Horatio Alger Association has boasted members such as Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, it has also welcomed Hank Aaron, Maya Angelou, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Brokaw, Carol Burnett, George Foreman, Leo DiCaprio, Dr. J, Wayne Gretzky, and Oprah Winfrey, among scores of other household names. So, not exactly the John Birch Society. Not even <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/02\/another-day-another-shoddy-politico-hit-piece-aimed-at-the-conservative-legal-movement\/\">the Federalist Society.<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5abbf33eb0653bdfda02ffb5ee97abc7 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5abbf33eb0653bdfda02ffb5ee97abc7\"><\/div>\n<p>Yet, the Times points out that the group also \u201cincluded major donors to conservative causes with broad policy and political interests and much at stake in Supreme Court decisions, e<em>ven if they were not directly involved in the cases<\/em>.\u201d (Irritated italics mine.)<\/p>\n<p>What this really means is that the Times combed through the records of every member of the Horatio Alger Association \u2014 and ex-wives and brothers-in-law and so on \u2014 to investigate if they, or any company they invested in, had even a tenuous connection to a case that found its way in front of the Supreme Court. Apparently, they couldn\u2019t ferret out one. This didn\u2019t stop some unethical NYT editor from moving forward with a story that was almost surely pitched to them by an anti-court activist group.<\/p>\n<p>Is it now considered corrupt for justices to join philanthropic efforts because wealthy donors to those causes might have a stake \u2014 not directly, mind you \u2014 in the court\u2019s decisions? That would be a fascinating new standard. Do benefactors of the charitable organizations that Elena Kagan supports not have a stake in Supreme Court decisions? Unlikely. Because it seems to me that while most wealthy people are affected by commerce cases, they are also generally the only ones who can afford to give millions to charitable organizations.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a special, perverse talent to depict membership to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-grants-26-pardons-and-3-commutations-includes-numerous-prominent-names\/\" title=\"Trump Grants 26 Pardons And 3 Commutations, Includes Numerous Prominent Names\">philanthropic organization<\/a> as a devious venture, but the Times feigns to do so in 4,000-plus words of bogus journalism. And, as transparently nonsensical as the hit pieces from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/06\/propublica-exposes-clarence-thomas-he-has-a-rich-friend\/\">ProPublica<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/02\/another-day-another-shoddy-politico-hit-piece-aimed-at-the-conservative-legal-movement\/\">Politico<\/a> were, the Times\u2019 effort makes them seem Pulitzer-worthy. The objective is not to enlighten, of course, but to destroy trust in the Supreme Court, the least partisan branch of our government.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9c7db4e7b31f25b2a6c65174bfdd127a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9c7db4e7b31f25b2a6c65174bfdd127a\"><\/div>\n<p>What the left has not done is provide a single example \u2014 not for Thomas or <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/01\/the-campaign-to-destroy-scotus-is-getting-increasingly-stupid\/\">Alito<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/02\/another-day-another-shoddy-politico-hit-piece-aimed-at-the-conservative-legal-movement\/\">Gorsuch<\/a> \u2014 in which a justice has strayed from his judicial philosophy to help anyone, much less himself. Being an originalist or a \u201cconservative\u201d on the court is the real crime. The rest just needs to be figured out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ea470579268398390ccad9cdc3950cd2 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ea470579268398390ccad9cdc3950cd2\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times recently accused Clarence Thomas of being part of the Horatio Alger Association, an &#8220;elite circle.&#8221; This group consists of affluent Americans and is named after the author who portrayed a version of Thomas&#8217; own self-made success story during the Gilded Age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1969314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}