Justice Thomas discloses what he is required to disclose, but declines to disclose optional information that would allow critics to attack him, his family, and his friends. Thomas’s apparent goal is not to shield any actual or apparent conflicts of interest. Despite the media’s best efforts, there have been no reports that Crow transacted actual business before the Supreme Court. His goal seems to be to protect his privacy from critics that have been trying to destroy him for more three decades.

Consider Justice Thomas’s concurrences from Citizens United and Doe v. Reed in this light. … Every disclosure Thomas makes about Crow, and others, will invariably lead to more attacks on Thomas, and those friends. Thomas has no interest in going above-and-beyond to give his critics further ammunition.

[Unfortunately accurate, and unfortunately Thomas himself is Exhibit A. — Ed]