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The Common Cause complaint against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia

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Tags: Scalia, Thomas, Koch brothers, conflict of interest, Tea Party, Common Cause complaint, Mary Boyle

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. The national citizen's lobby Common Cause raised a new ethical question this week about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, asking the Court for a thorough accounting of a January 2008 trip in which the justice spent four days in California for what the court has said was a single speech and a "drop-by" at a gathering of business executives and veteran political operatives.

A court spokesperson's description last month of the trip ...