SPECIAL REPORT: THERE IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CHARGE CLARENCE THOMAS ON MONDAY

SPECIAL REPORT: THERE IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CHARGE CLARENCE THOMAS ON MONDAY

From Narativ with Zev Shalev (Audio) by Zev Shalev

May 28, 2026 · 52 min

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Christopher Armitage discusses the potential indictment of Justice Clarence Thomas based on Virginia law.

Christopher Armitage came on Narativ Live tonight to argue, in plain language, what most of the legal-political world has been too cautious to say aloud — that Justice Clarence Thomas could be indicted next Monday, in a Fairfax County courthouse, on charges already supported by the public record. The case does not require Congress, the Department of Justice, or the Supreme Court itself to do anything. It requires three Virginia officials who already have the authority to act, and the will to use it. Armitage’s argument rests on a doctrine the Supreme Court has affirmed as recently as the 2019 Snyder decision — dual sovereignty: states are allowed to enforce their own laws, even on federal officials. The Roberts Court has narrowed federal fraud, bribery, and corruption statutes to the point that the federal-level case against Thomas may no longer be winnable, but Virginia’s laws are not bound by John Roberts’s reading. Thomas lives in Fairfax County. He files a Virginia resident income tax return. The twenty years of private jets, superyachts, summer compounds at Harlan Crow’s Adirondacks property, tuition payments for a child he was raising, and a quarter-million-dollar motorhome…

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Host: Zev Shalev

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Organizations: Supreme Court, Department of Justice

Places: Fairfax County, Virginia, Adirondacks

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