"Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over 25 years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them," – Clarence Thomas. Thomas joined SCOTUS in 1991, so, he’s been in Crow’s “velvet pocket” for all of those 25 years. The elites always act as if they are above being influenced by extravagant gifts bestowed upon them, owing to their own arrogance of professing they’re “above that sort of thing”. There are millions of reasons that’s a lie, starting with Ginni's salary.