Harlan Crow believes he and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the victims of a “political hit job.” The 73-year-old real estate magnate, who is widely known as a pillar of Dallas business, finds himself in a maelstrom that was unimaginable to him two weeks ago. That’s when ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news publication, broke its story about Justice Thomas vacationing in luxury at the expense of Crow for more than two decades without disclosing Crow’s largesse. The controversy flared up again last week when ProPublica further revealed that Thomas sold his mother’s home to Crow, but failed to...