We have lots of great Clarence Thomas editorial cartoons to discuss with the cartoonists! Justice Thomas has recently been embroiled in ethics scandals about very expensive vacations, undisclosed gifts and purchases of property paid for by his buddy, billionaire real estate developer, Harlan Crowe, leading to speculation that Thomas has been selling his votes on the court.

We also remember Thomas's confirmation hearings, decades ago, where he was accused to sexually harassing Anita Hill. Thomas' wife, Ginni has also been controversial as a conservative activist and conspiracy theory believer, who lobbied the White House and state legislators to overturn the presidential election, to turn the election over to VP Mike Pence to presumably decide the election for President Trump on January 6th.

And there were the accusations of workplace sexual harassment made against Thomas by Anita Hill during his confirmation hearings.

We have FOUR great cartoonists today:

From Maine, RJ MATSON is the cartoonist for Roll Call in Washington DC for over 30 years. For many years, RJ was the cartoonist for the St Louis Post-Dispatch, he's been a cartoonist for The New York Observer, The New Yorker, Mad Magazine and he's won lots of awards.

From FLORIDA we have Taylor Jones who has been drawing cartoons for decades for the Hoover Digest. For many years he was the cartoonist for El Nueva Die in Puerto Rico and for US News & World Report, and he has a butterfly garden in his backyard.

Monte Wolverton, from Washington State draws wonderful, quirky, liberal cartoons that we syndicate everywhere. Monte is doing a crowd funding campaign now at Cagle.com/Wolverton, please take a look. It is tough to make a living in editorial cartoons with newspapers dying, so the support of fans can make all the difference in keeping artists like Monte drawing. You can make a difference. Visit Cagle.com/wolverton

and Ed Wexler in Los Angeles -- Ed was a Creative Director at Disney for thirty years. He was a regular cartoonist for US News and World Report and drew the star studded caricature covers for the Hollywood Reporter’s Emmy and Academy Awards issues for many years.

Here's an except from the transcript:

00:02:17] Daryl Cagle: This is Justice Thomas and wife Ginni, and they're drinking champagne and justice. Thomas Says, "Thanks for the personal hospitality." And we draw out to see that they're on a big, fancy yacht. And Thomas says, "... but I prefer RV parks and Walmart parking lots. This is quite an expensive looking vacation here.

Ed Wexler: One of many, apparently.

[00:02:39] Daryl Cagle: It is crazy to hear how much these vacations cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for a vacation in the Adirondacks. I can't even think of how to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a vacation in the Adirondacks.

[00:02:53] Ed Wexler: I wonder if they're always just the two of them on vacation.

[00:02:57] Ed Wexler: Do they go with other couples? Do they go, you know, is it always just ...

[00:02:59] Taylor Jones: I think it's mostly them. Uh, of course I do have their, their, their rich friends. They visit.

[00:03:09] Daryl Cagle: Rj, here's an excellent one from you. This is a view of the Supreme Court and it looks very much like the Catholic Church conservatives on the left and the normal liberal folks on the right with, uh, partition.

[00:03:22] Daryl Cagle: Tell us about this one. Church and state.

[00:03:26] RJ Matson: Church and state,, yeah, separate. I've been thinking of it for a while and, um, and putting the curtain at that angle finally solved the problem graphically for me. This was drawn after the opinion overturning Roe v Wade, which seems to be rooted in a particular religious reading of the origin of life, and not really in legal precedent. But who am I to judge, right?

[00:03:47] Daryl Cagle: It does. I don't really think you needed the curtain to separate them. The, the hats do it for me. Mm-hmm. But, This a great cartoon.

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