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Joshua Kaplan

Joshua Kaplan

Joshua Kaplan is a reporter at ProPublica. Previously, he wrote a column about criminal justice for the Washington City Paper, reporting on topics such as police misconduct during undercover prostitution stings and prosecutors’ tactics for depriving defendants of the right to a jury trial. He also reported on behavioral health care quality inside schools, psychiatric hospitals and addiction treatment facilities, including a series of investigations into mismanagement at D.C.’s Department of Behavioral Health. He holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips from a billionaire for more than 20 years without disclosing them on financial reporting forms. He's seen here seated next to his wife and conservative activist Virginia "Ginni" Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on Oct. 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Clarence Thomas secretly accepted luxury trips from a billionaire GOP donor

By: , and - April 6, 2023

In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a super yacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and […]