$178,300 per year; in 2022, his salary was $274,200. So an additional $80,000 to $100,000 would not have been anything to sneeze about!
Meanwhile, if you’re wondering if the nonprofit organization Leo advises had business before the Supreme Court the very year he was directing tens of thousands of dollars into Ginni Thomas’s pocket, wonder no longer. In December of 2012, per thea case challenging a landmark civil rights law aimed at protecting minority voters. The Court struck down a formula in the Voting Rights Act that determined which states had to obtain federal clearance before changing their voting rules and procedures.
For his part, Leo naturally issued a series of statements defending the whole arrangement as totally proper and not at all corrupt. “I have known Clarence and Ginni Thomas since 1990,” he told the. “They are dear friends and are people of tremendous good will and integrity. Anybody who thinks that Justice Thomas is influenced in his work by what others say or do, including his wife Ginni, is completely ignorant of who this man is and what he stands for.
Of his directive to keep Ginni Thomas’s name off of documents, he wrote, “Knowing how disrespectful, malicious and gossipy people can be, I have always tried to protect the privacy of Justice Thomas and Ginni.” Because what else is he going to say? I knew how bad this looked and I wanted to avoid it coming out in public?