The mounting controversies surrounding Clarence Thomas at the Supreme Court.

Justice Clarence Thomas is facing increased scrutiny after reports linked him financially to GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. The latest report reveals that Crow paid thousands of dollars in tuition to a private boarding school for Thomas’s great-nephew. Federal ethics laws require the justices to report gifts given to a “dependent child,” but Thomas’s allies have insisted the payment doesn’t violate the disclosure law since it was for Thomas’s sister’s grandson. Democrats are calling for the justices to adopt a binding code of ethics, while Republicans argue that the Supreme Court should police its own rules.