A conservative judicial activist urged there be “no mention of Ginni” in billing paperwork for consulting payments to Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
, then a prominent GOP Pollster, to bill the Judicial Education Project “another $25K,” and then direct the money to Thomas. “No mention of Ginni, of course,” Leo added in a message to Conway explaining how to handle the paperwork for the billing.
Conway’s bill to the Judicial Education Project listed the funds as “Supplement for Constitution Polling and Opinion Consulting.” Overall, Conway’s firm paid Thomas’s own firm, Liberty Consulting, $80,000 between June 2011 and June 2012, and had scheduled an additional $20,000 payment for later that year.
The year the payments took place, the Judicial Education Project submitted an amicus brief supporting the overturning of several provisions of the 1965 Civil Rights Act in
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