A year after persuading Texas lawmakers to buy millions of child identification kits that had no proven record of success, a businessman with a troubled history found an in with the state’s attorney general.
Last fall, Kenny Hansmire was tapped by Republican …

Series: Friends of the Court
Clarence Thomas Beneficial Friendship With a GOP Megadonor
In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justic…