Mark Martin, the man raised by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a ā€œson,ā€ is speaking out on the sad truth of their relationship.

The man Clarence Thomas said he once considered like a ā€œsonā€ now says that Thomas doesnā€™t want much to do with him.

Mark Martin, the grandson of Thomasā€™s sisterĀ Emma Mae Martin, spoke toĀ Business InsiderĀ from a jail cell in South Carolina and said that the Supreme Court justice and his wife, Ginni, donā€™t have a relationship with him anymore, despite being his legal guardians from age 6 to 19.

Martin, who is awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges after he was arrested last summer, benefited from gifts Thomas received from conservative billionaire Harlan Crow, which the Supreme Court justice initiallyĀ failed to includeĀ in financial disclosures.

ā€œI havenā€™t really heard much from them in a long time,ā€ Martin said of his adoptive parents. ā€œI tried to communicate with them a couple of times, but Iā€™ve never gotten any response.ā€

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Thomas didnā€™t respond to Business Insiderā€™s request for comment, but itā€™s not likely that he would have offered any acceptable justification for his and his wifeā€™s treatment of someone they have referred to as a son. Thomas still refuses to speak about the unethical gifts he has received and adamantly refuses toĀ resignfrom the Supreme Court despite all of his ethics scandals. Sadly, it seems that Martinā€™s life has been a casualty of Clarence and Ginni Thomasā€™s service to the conservative movement.