At the Supreme Court, at the White House and at his house, Clarence Thomas is the go-to justice to swear in Trump’s Cabinet
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has spent recent days alongside several Trump administration Cabinet officials – making them official.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has spent recent days alongside several Trump administration Cabinet officials – making them official. In the process, he and his wife, Ginni, have drawn exceptional attention from President Donald Trump himself. On Wednesday morning, Thomas swore in Doug Collins to be secretary of Veterans Affairs, at a private ceremony in an ornate, chandeliered, Supreme Court conference room. Then Thomas rode over to the White House and administered the oath to Pam Bondi as she became the new attorney general. Joining Thomas was his wife, a longtime conservative activist, whom the president extolled at the Oval Office event. Thomas later swore in Scott Turner as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, also as Trump looked on, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. A week earlier, Thomas had read the oath to Sean Duffy, the new secretary of the Department of Transportation, in a closed ceremony at the Supreme Court with Duffy’s family.
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