Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden said they have formally asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate the millions of dollars of undisclosed gifts Supreme Court Justice Clarence received and failed to report. “The full scope of Justice Thomas’s non-disclosures is still unknown, but the evidence assembled thus far suggests that, since his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Thomas has secretly accepted gifts and income potentially worth millions of dollars.