Francis Crane is the 16-year-old daughter of the wealthy businessman who owns Crane Flour, a . And they presented what they said were better people, their friends, who should be hired. Their actions ensnared them into a web they couldnt get out of. 1. It was the one person that he listened to, according to his friends. But it's the aura, again, that we get back to here, which is the image problem, the appearance of a conflict of interest that undermines the public confidence that the court is ruling in favor of justice rather than in favor of a justice's pocketbook. The guards open the wooden chest after pondering the thought curiously, despite their better judgment to follow protocol and call the mainland authorities. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Another interesting thing you note about Frank Gaffney, this person who heads this group, the Center for Security Policy - you report in 2019 it was reported that the White House had Ginni Thomas and Frank Gaffney and some associates to brief President Trump on some policy and personnel issues. This event makes them waver from their main duties, and greed drives them to do bad things. And they prayed there. And she has a number of clients, former clients and other supporters, who tout her skills. But what's interesting is that these rules apply to all judges who are in the federal system except for those on the Supreme Court. It is no surprise that Ginni Thomas and Frank Gaffney might hold the position that they have held with respect to the Muslim travel ban. The keepers fight tooth and nail to keep the gold to the point that drives a wedge between them. She is a staff writer and chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. The tower radio was also not working despite their efforts to get it working. But there's a ton of gray ground for the Supreme Court that is black and white for every other judge in this country. You want to explain who he is? Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance. He decides he cant take it anymore and wants to kill himself. So there's this appearance test. It is later revealed that Thomas wife and twin children died a few years ago. The Michaelsons have been living out a fantasy in which they think their daughter is still alive because they have been unable to successfully go through the stages of grief, after learning from Paul's brother that their daughter had died six years before. You mention particularly David Dinielli, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center. It requires justices to recuse themselves from participating in any case that presents a financial conflict involving close family members. Her latest article in the magazine is titled "Is Ginni Thomas A Threat To The Supreme Court?" DAVIES: When you say they strike them, is that a formal filing that's filed with the court? A previous version of this story incorrectly said that Fix the Court had reported that Ginni Thomas' salary had been omitted from Justice Thomas' financial disclosure statements. I think it goes back at least till 2013, and it still exists. If you look up its address online, it's just a mailbox. So it seems as if she's kind of favoring him. In her interview with the Free Beacon, Mrs. Thomas said she and her husband do not discuss Supreme Court cases "until [the court's] opinion are public --and even then, our discussions have always been very general and limited to public information.". New Yorker writer Jane Mayer discusses the conservative beliefs and influence of Ginni Thomas, an activist who's been associated with some groups involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Mayer reports that Ginni Thomas holds extreme right-wing views. DAVIES: I mentioned in my introduction that you wrote that Ginni Thomas has said that the country faces existential danger from the deep state and fascist left. Only 40% of the country said that they respected the court. This alerts the keepers and gets them back to the tower. The Vanishing Ending: Why Did Thomas Kill James? In The Vanished, streaming hard with a vengeance on Netflix, a couple . And I think probably the effort is gaining in traction because of exactly this sort of thing. We also see Thomas lighting three candles in the chapel while reciting three names Jessica, Freya and Cathy. What do we know about that meeting, how it happened, what occurred? Nine is the owner of this masthead. Our digital media producer is Molly Seavy-Nesper. But they include a kind of - they run the gamut of the far-right wing, including one of the organizers of the January 6 Stop the Steal protests, somebody named Kimberly Fletcher. The groundskeeper is on drugs. Add The Vanishing Stair at Goodreads. MAYER: Yeah. DAVIES: What does Chief Justice John Roberts think about all this? And, again, this is a problem in terms of the image of Ginni Thomas because she gave Mark Meadows one of her special awards, something she calls the Impact Award. Thomas hatches a plan that would allow the three of them to keep a share of the gold and not get caught. DAVIES: And an interesting question is, where would Frank Gaffney and his organization get the $200,000 or more that they used to hire Ginni Thomas as a lobbyist? Thomas tries to give her some meaning by reminding her that what Donald did was in self-defense. "The Vanishing Half," being adapted into an HBO limited series, lands at an unprecedented moment. Here's what else has happened today so far: The debt limit battle has officially started . The Hotel itself was colloquially known to have "insanity within its walls," with guests ranging from drug . The justices take care of this themselves. So she has not disclosed or registered herself as a lobbyist in any formal way. They can pay her an undisclosed amount of money, and all that's on the forms for the public to see is that she earns some undisclosed amount of money from her firm. The Supreme Court holds itself as above all the rest of the judges and above the judicial code. Her family knew him, and she got a job in his office. They find a few random items, like shoes and some clothes, and the precious gold bars are tucked away at the bottom of the box. On Wednesday morning, Ginni Thomaswife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas endorsed the rally in Washington demanding that Congress overturn the election. Their bodies were never found, and an official investigation conducted by a superintendent named Robert Muirhead determined the sea had "washed away" the men. I spoke to a number of the people who are really considered kind of the gold standard on the subject of judicial ethics. DAVIES: FRESH AIR's executive producer is Danny Miller. So she gave that up and eventually opened up her own little political lobbying firm called Liberty Consulting. Mayer reports that Ginni Thomas holds extreme right-wing . He isolates himself in a small chapel on the island as the guilt of killing men engulfs him. Only the remaining keepers board the boat, while Jed remains in the lighthouse. Ultimately, Thomas and James venture into the sea with their precious gold and Donalds dead body. The group Common Cause had reported it. (SOUNDBITE OF DAN AUERBACH SONG, HEARTBROKEN, IN DISREPAIR). Even before that, Clarence Thomas had been described as listening to Ginni Thomas more than anybody else. Ultimately, the violent trauma, mounting paranoia, and their crumbling mental states took the better of them, leaving Donald and James dead. What rules, if any, apply to judges? It's an in your face behavior and she just doesn't seem to care." She was on the board - the advisory board of Turning Point Action, which is another group whose founder, Charlie Kirk, had a big role in organizing the January 6 protests. And Chief Justice Roberts basically kind of gave a defiant end-of-year statement saying back off, we can handle this ourselves. It reveals how their lives change when a mysterious wooden chest washes up on shore with a presumed dead man. The Vanishing locations are primarily located in Washington with . Movie Info. Starring Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan and Connor Swindells as the main guardians of light in The Vanishing, the film explores several themes, such as the impact of trauma, dealing with guilt and how greed can completely change a persons behavior. And she opened the meeting, actually, by looking around the room and saying she didn't trust everybody in it. Truly Devious Series #1 Truly Devious #2 The Vanishing Stair #3 The Hand on the Wall #4 The Box in the Woods ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in The Vanishing Stair? The movie was directed by George Sluizer and was a remake of the French-Dutch movie of the same name that was made and directed by Sluizer in 1988. In January, for instance, the Supreme Court rejected Trump's effort to block a congressional subpoena for White House records related to the events surrounding the certification of the 2020 presidential election, and the Jan. 6 riot. So we have a case here not simply of ideological alignment. It's kind of an unwatched area that's exploding. The radio at the tower was also not functioning despite their efforts to get it running. But she has a website, and on it she boasts that she can get access to any door in Washington. Her latest article is about the conservative activism of Ginni Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. It's a nonpartisan group. He said it just makes a complete mockery of the idea that there's fairness on the Supreme Court, and he finds it incredibly disturbing. She has an active lobbying firm and has ties to many groups that have an interest in cases that may come before the court. Little did Thomas and Jackie know that this unemployed, former childhood actor and dishonorably discharged Marine had another devious plan in mind: To lure the couple out to sea, force them to sign away their life . Thomas bangs the door and asks to be let out, but it is to no avail. Towards the end, Thomas sits and weeps in the chapel, asking for spiritual forgiveness as he thinks he let his wife die. He's a well-known figure in Washington. Do we know? The keepers realize it must be something precious as the man who had the chest was ready to kill Donald over it. MAYER: Well, there are actually very specific rules applying to judges' spouses and family members. You can't award a contract to your husband or wife's firm because that's a little too close. James was a family man who loved his wife and children and would do anything for them. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when she joined the appeals court - even before she got to the Supreme Court - her husband, Marty Ginsburg, who was one of the country's most successful tax lawyers, gave up his law practice in order to make sure that she was free to take cases and not have to recuse. DAVIES: OK. Not hard to imagine that. One example - on Monday, the court agreed to consider whether race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are lawful, raising the prospect that the court's conservative supermajority could roll back affirmative action in higher education. And that is, I guess, the release of Trump's documents. Ginni Thomas brought in a group of people. What happened? MAYER: Well, by all accounts, it was a very awkward and uncomfortable meeting. Donald and James are overwhelmed with curiosity the following day and eventually open the chest themselves. He's a very, very outspoken defense hawk who has, over the years, been vociferous in his fear that Muslims are posing an existential threat to America. Being a secretive person, Thomas evades the question, leaving the viewers puzzled. What do you know about the impact of that experience on their relationship and her political development? DAVIES: I thought before we talk about Ginni Thomas' specific activities, we might talk a bit about what rules or standards should apply to this. It is believed to have remained in the lighthouse as it was supposed to. SPOILERS AHEAD! DAVIES: Yeah, you know, I think most of us would not want to be judged by the - many of the things we did in our 20s. And as you say, given Clarence Thomas' record and his point of view, he might very well have upheld that Muslim ban anyway. Action where one of the group's positions was that every week, they were told that their members needed to denounce the Southern Poverty Law Center online every single week, to come up with something to say that would denigrate this organization. And in 2017 and 2018, according to filings that he submitted to the IRS, he hired Ginni Thomas' consulting group, each year, for over $100,000, to work for him. He claims to be Jack Sommersby, a wealthy . A small relief boat approaches a tiny, isolated island where a lighthouse is located. The two . You have to really kind of, you know, put on your green eyeshades to find it. I mean, the thing is that Ginni Thomas has ties to many of the organizers of the January 6 protests. We are introduced to the friendly guard dog Jed when the three keepers arrive at the lighthouse for their six-week shift manning the tower. But things get better when James returns to them and seems like himself again. This discovery is the root of all conflicts and troubles among the keepers and soon turns the movie into a psychological thriller. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and we're speaking with New Yorker, staff writer and chief Washington correspondent Jane Mayer. And what I found was just an astounding number of them have connections to Ginni Thomas. Overview. Netflix describes the plot as: When their daughter disappears during a family vacation, two terrified parents launch their own investigation that soon exposes local secrets. Nine is the owner of this masthead. First of all, just explain what an amicus brief is. They plan on how they each can get a share of the gold without getting caught. Does she have a staff? And that's not fudging it. But what he said was that he thought that Ginni Thomas is - her behavior is reprehensible. Thomas got into music at an early age, teaching himself to play instruments by ear and singing choir at church and in school in Oklahoma. We are puzzled as we did not get an explicit answer about how his children died. DAVIES: Are there efforts in Congress to change the rules that apply to the Supreme Court? Thomas is seen as distant and in grief throughout the movie. In furtherance of that statute, Supreme Court justices and their spouses are required to file annual financial disclosure forms. But a court case is a little different. DAVIES: So I'd like you to give us a sense of Ginni Thomas' political views. This makes the climax pose a big question what really happened to Thomas, James, and Donald? Wow. After the lighthouse keepers deal with the crew members who come to the island looking for their missing man and the chest full of gold he traveled with, the tension in the movie increases manifold. Accuracy and availability may vary. Even closer in some ways to the situation that the Thomases have is a situation that's on the appeals court in Washington, D.C. Do you know? The women were all seen by witnesses, but they somehow vanished into thin air. She's been supportive of Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and she's said that the country faces existential danger from the deep state and the fascist left. On this winter evening, Thomas, a substitute teacher for the St. Louis Public Schools, is reliving scenes from the mid-1990s, when she was the young mother of two toddler . DAVIES: I guess the question that obviously occurs is, how does he know what the other eight justices think? But what about judges? She's an heiress and part of the Mercer family that's made tons of money on Wall Street. And he said, absolutely. I think she's got maybe one assistant that I know of. Drew Angerer/Getty Images MAYER: So she apparently felt quite stuck and stymied by the fact that he went on the Supreme Court. They are ideologically in sync. DAVIES: And we should just note that the group which provided this money to Gaffney's organization, which is headed by Rebekah Mercer, is called Making America Great or Make America Great, right? But it's up to the justices to enforce it themselves. DAVIES: We need to take a break here. At this point in the docuseries, we know Elisa Lam is dead; her body was found nude in a water tank on the roof of the Cecil 18 days after she disappeared in 13. The beginning of the film alludes to Thomas' loneliness and the fact that he has no family to take care of. So I asked somebody who knows a lot about how the court works, and I was told that no way, that each justice sort of functions as their own law firm separately, independently, and that no justice would feel that it was appropriate to criticize another. Justice is another one. I interviewed someone who is in one of these groups with her who said, basically - first of all, he said that he didn't want to speak on the record because he described Ginni Thomas as "volatile," quote, unquote, and said that the best way to describe her, he thought, was tribal. MAYER: Well, I mean, one of the issues that may come in front of the court is whether targets of the January 6 committee need to cooperate with it. And she uses that word kill twice. And the way they get along with each other is by not making an issue of such things. Copyright 2022 NPR. A few gold bars were the focus of the gripping thriller, bringing out the greed in every man on the island. Thomas is seen secretly opening the safe in the middle of the night as he asked the others not to open it. Critics have maintained that Justice Thomas should recuse himself from participating in cases that touch on issues his wife has publicly spoken about, even campaigned about. Like the Ravenel Bridge today, the Grace Bridge actually crossed two bodies of water - the Cooper River and Town Creek. Lam had left . Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks to his wife, Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist, at the Heritage Foundation on Oct. 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Ginni Thomas, the controversial wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says her activities on behalf of Donald Trump and other conservative causes have no bearing on the work of her husband. But there was no disclosure of this. She's a director of a group called C.N.P. (SOUNDBITE OF HIOR CHRONIK'S "WE ARE ALL SNOWFLAKES"). So Ginni Thomas is working for someone, as it turns out, and making money from someone who has joined a case in front of her husband. DAVIES: If you'd like to catch up on interviews you've missed, like our conversation with Slate film critic Dana Stevens about the remarkable career of silent film star Buster Keaton or with Matthew Macfadyen, who plays Tom on the HBO series "Succession," check out our podcast. You know, it may be that Clarence Thomas would have voted the way he voted, to uphold the Muslim ban, anyway. The thought of his family crossed his mind, and he did not know how to face them after what he did. 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James is seen reassuring him that he could have done nothing to protect his wife as she was ill. Our guest is New Yorker staff writer and chief Washington correspondent Jane Mayer. Jeds last appearance is when he is sitting next to Donalds corpse. When Thomas bursts through the door, he sees Donalds dead body beside James as he kills him too. I saw this girl across the table and it turned out to be Gloria. Her father was a engineer and a developer of sort of housing complexes. How much concern is there among justices, legal scholars that this undermines the reputation of the court? We're not going to accept that brief. SAN DIEGO -- Officials have identified a body pulled from the San Diego bay two months ago as Elizabeth Sullivan, a 31-year-old Navy wife and mother of two who had vanished two years before from . MAYER: So there are. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. And, you know, of course, the other side would like to know that there's - that the justice's family was being paid by somebody who had filed an amicus brief. They believed in things like the John Birch Society, and they were afraid that there was fluoridation in the water that was somehow poisoning people's minds - that kind of thing. "We have never since 1790 had any justice doing anything like that. DAVIES: And what do we know of its work and its clients? Thomas did not kill James per se but rather accepted his decision to lay down his life. As Thomas throws the body overboard, James voluntarily steps into the sea and drowns himself. When he sees the boys face, he immediately remembers his own son and his sanity takes a turn for the worse. I don't think anybody knew at the time other than the Thomases, maybe, you know, and Frank Gaffney. "The Vanishing" has a clear answer to the rhetorical question once asked by "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" ("Who will survive and what will be left of them?") Well, no one, and very little. United States. MAYER: It was called Making America Great. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. He was a simple man who worked hard and supported his family. $14,543,394 [2] The Vanishing is a 1993 American psychological thriller film directed by George Sluizer and starring Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, and Sandra Bullock. In all, it measured 2.71 miles and it stood 250 feet tall - 15 feet higher than the Brooklyn Bridge. Its understandable, as the simple keepers of the light did not sign up for six weeks of murder, apprehension, and paranoia. When he sees the face of the boy, he is immediately reminded of his own son, and his sanity takes an ugly turn. And he said that his parents were actually Goldwater Republicans. Near the end, James locks Thomas in a room and begins to choke Donald. Following the events on the island, James resolves to end his life because he cannot live, haunted by lies and secrecy. Born in June 1951, Richard Thomas has managed to stay relevant in showbiz for . ", (SOUNDBITE OF BOSTON CELLO QUARTET AND WILL HUDGINS' "BRAZIL"). Powered by JustWatch. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and we're speaking with New Yorker staff writer and chief Washington correspondent Jane Mayer. MAYER: He was the only vote that - Trump side and said that Trump didn't need to release his documents, his papers to the January 6 committee. The movies climax shows no indication of the condition of the lighthouse after the keepers sailed away. Hardcover, 343 pages. Understanding James pain and agony, Thomas accepts his dying wish and holds his head underwater. It's just - as one of the legal scholars I interviewed, David Luban, said, it's slicing the baloney a little bit too thin. Desiree and Stella Vignes are . What did you discover? His appearance is limited but adds a bit of life to the dreary scenes on the gray island. It's another kind of form of dark money spending. This is FRESH AIR. She has not registered as a lobbyist. Let's talk about this. Understanding Jamess pain and agony, Thomas agrees to his dying wish and holds his head underwater. They're taking a position on the cases in front of the court. And he became an academic. Thomas' fourth wife, Francis, passed away in 2004 after undergoing successful heart surgery, leaving her husband as the . Budget. When James tells Donald that Thomas wife died, he expresses his condolences and even asks Thomas what happened. The guardians, delighted to discover the precious metal, see in it the solution to all their problems. DAVIES: Interesting. But after that, I think both of them had just pronounced bitterness towards the mainstream press, towards liberals who had questioned them and certainly towards anybody who believed that Anita Hill told the truth. And of course, when he is nominated to the Supreme Court, he has the most memorable confirmation hearings. It also allows him to . There's an organization called Documented that somehow has put online a number of her speeches, so others can check them out themselves if they want to see. We are TOI.News and we provide Top Latest Breaking News of Entertainment, Game Guide, Sports News, etc. The keepers open the wooden chest after mulling over the thought in curiosity, despite their better judgment of following the protocol and calling the authorities on the mainland. MAYER: Because they're - these amicus briefs have become increasingly controversial, there was a new rule passed in 2018 for appellate judges that enables them to strike any amicus brief that presents a conflict of interest to them. The film is a testament to human strength, both mental and physical. I've been interviewing lots of people about it. We are perplexed because we did not get an explicit answer on the death of his children. They even start singing a song they sing at the beginning, which makes the scenes mood lighter. But even they thought the Lamps were - what he said was crazy. The film follows a married couple who goes on a family camping trip and loses their 10-year-old daughter Taylor (Sadie and KK Heim) in the middle of their vacation. DAVIES: Now, you cite many circumstances in which conservative groups or individuals that Ginni Thomas has some association with have filed amicus briefs before the court that her husband sits on. Barney (Jeff Bridges) is a disturbed man intent on abducting a woman. Vanishing Act: Six Years After The Fact, The Disappearance Of Nine-Year-Old Christian Ferguson Remains A Mystery . The harm, adds Gillers, is to the court itself, and it reputation. Should these payments have appeared on that disclosure? Good question. Article continues below advertisement. Published Thu, Mar 24 2022 6:20 PM EDT Updated Thu, Mar 24 2022 8:17 PM EDT. Lets find out. Such goes the true story of the Flannan Isle Mystery, about three lighthouse keepers who disappeared from a Scottish isle . It's kind of an online network, a secret network of right-wing activists who are trying to coordinate with conservative members of Congress and their staff and conservative members of the media and quite a few other activists. But things look up when James comes back to them and seems to be himself again. He said that - he thought that if you could ask the other eight justices what they think about what she's doing, that they would tell you that they were appalled. A persons mental health may deteriorate under such circumstances. Two days later, the circumstances of its disappearance remain cloaked in mystery. Her life took some interesting detours there; didn't they? DAVIES: And what connection does Ginni Thomas have with him? But there's a glitch in it, and that's what I came across in writing about Ginni Thomas. With Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, and Connor Swindells as the lead keepers of the light in The Vanishing, the film explores multiple themes, such as the impact of trauma, dealing with guilt, and how greed can completely alter a persons behavior. But what I came across in doing this reporting was an instance where, just because I bumped into one of these client's finances, I could see that Ginni Thomas had earned something like $200,000 from a specific person who had an interest in front of the court and that none of this was disclosed in Justice Thomas' financial disclosures. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. And they, during the Trump administration, played a really unusual role and, I think, one that raised a lot of eyebrows even inside the Trump White House, which was that they compiled a list of people that they claimed were disloyal members of the so-called deep state who were, they thought, not going along enough with Trump. Thomas was a popular child actor in the 90s, best known for his role on the sitcom Home Improvement, while Pomers starred in the series Reba in the early 2000s. But you can see that the other justices - many of them - have handled these issues much more carefully, much more sensitively. He thinks that, you know, Justice Thomas should amend the financial disclosure, put out more information on this and also that there needs to be some reform in these rules so that justices are required to recuse if their family members are involved in amicus briefs in front of the court. And one of the people I interviewed is the journalist Kurt Andersen, who grew up exactly across the street from the Lamp family. After all the violence and trauma they experienced in six weeks, Jamess mind becomes insane. After Locke and Boor are murdered, the Guardians chase someone hiding outside and James kills him as well. Her latest article is "Is Ginni Thomas A Threat To The Supreme Court?" Her latest article is about the conservative activism and influence of Ginni Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
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