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'He wanted to make money.' The right-wing transformation of Justice Clarence Thomas

07:07

Slate’s Joel Anderson, host of the podcast “Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas,” tells Mehdi how money was the driving force behind the Supreme Court justice’s transformation from civil rights activist to hero of the Republican radical right.