'While Fix the Court published the records, it wasn’t clear if any reporter had ever read them that carefully. So we decided to spend a few days sorting through them.'
These stories have had huge impact: Members of Congress have demanded an investigation into the undisclosed travel of Thomas on Crow’s dime, ethics watchdogs have called for new rules regarding Supreme Court justices and their financial ties to donors, and journalists—notably—have begun a conversation about just how important it is to cover the justices as well as the court itself. The rules are changing.
So how did ProPublica get the goods? Reporter Josh Kaplan was kind enough to answer a few questions over email about just how they managed to blow the lid off the troubling connections between Harlan Crow and Justice Clarence Thomas. Hillary Frey: Disclosure forms filed by the justices were one place you were rooting around, but the “behind the scenes” piece I mentioned above also noted that you hunted in some “obscure corners of the internet.” Can you give a sense of the volume of documents you needed to sift through, and what kind of internet rabbit holes pulled you in?This story started with a pile of records that had been sitting on the internet for years.
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