Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke out about the criticism flowing his way in recent months that has spilled into attacks on his friends and family.
The longest-serving justice on the current Supreme Court has been under fire for reports about lavish gifts from his friend and conservative donor Harlan Crow. He has also refused to recuse himself from cases related to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, though his wife Virginia Thomas was involved in the fight to contest the results of the 2020 election.
Thomas made the comments at a judicial conference in Alabama, though he did not specifically address the controversies.
“My wife and I, the last two or three years, just the nastiness and the lies,” Thomas said. “There’s certainly been a lot of …