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Like many who grow up poor and achieve professional success, Clarence Thomas has cultivated a taste for the finer things in life—especially when gifted to him by the sort of folks to whom the Supreme Court justice’s $230,000 salary is chump change. Reporting from ProPublica earlier this year revealed that Dallas real estate billionaire Harlan Crow rewarded his pal with luxurious vacations, flights on his private jets, and a rent-free house for the judge’s mother. More recently, the New York Times reported that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has let Thomas travel on his private jet, too, and has plied him with visits to the Cowboys’ training camp and to the owner’s box during games in Washington, D.C. Jones also bestowed upon Thomas a Super…

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