Supreme Transparency

Claremont Institute Senior Fellow and former President Michael Pack made a 2020 documentary film about Clarence Thomas to rebut the “narrative being told by his enemies” and closely coordinated with Clarence and Ginni Thomas, along with longtime Thomas advisor Mark Paoletta. In 2022, the Leonard Leo-tied Judicial Crisis Network ran $1.5 million in ads attacking Ketanji Brown Jackson and promoting the Thomas biopic, which was hosted on JusticeThomas.com, a website that listed Clarence Thomas as the copyright holder. JCN’s $1.5 million promotion of a film defending Thomas from criticism coincided with revelations that Ginni Thomas sent dozens of texts to Mark Meadows to try to overturn the 2020 election. Michael Pack also published a May 2023 op-ed in the Washington Examiner attacking ProPublica’s reporting on Thomas’ ethics conflicts. (The Washington Examiner is owned by Philip Anschutz.)

Associate Justice

Clarence Thomas

Claremont Institute Senior Fellow and former President Michael Pack made a 2020 documentary film about Clarence Thomas to rebut the “narrative being told by his enemies” and closely coordinated with Clarence and Ginni Thomas, along with longtime Thomas advisor Mark Paoletta. In 2022, the Leonard Leo-tied Judicial Crisis Network ran $1.5 million in ads attacking Ketanji Brown Jackson and promoting the Thomas biopic, which was hosted on JusticeThomas.com, a website that listed Clarence Thomas as the copyright holder. JCN’s $1.5 million promotion of a film defending Thomas from criticism coincided with revelations that Ginni Thomas sent dozens of texts to Mark Meadows to try to overturn the 2020 election. Michael Pack also published a May 2023 op-ed in the Washington Examiner attacking ProPublica’s reporting on Thomas’ ethics conflicts. (The Washington Examiner is owned by Philip Anschutz.)

Associations

Organization

Claremont Institute and Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence