[post_page_title]Debra Mooney as Verna Thornton[/post_page_title]
Verna Thornton is a Supreme Court Justice who appears first in the second season of the show. She is sick with cancer in the hospital and her good friend Olivia Pope frequently comes to visit her. Despite being terminally ill she doesn’t give up her seat on the highest court of America. In an intense twist of events, Verna is suffocated to death by none other than President Fitz Grant himself upon learning the truth about how really he got elected…