All Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have called on Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate undisclosed luxury trips that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted from a wealthy Republican donor.
The panel, the Democrats said in a Monday letter, would soon hold a hearing on the court’s ethical standards.
“You have a role to play as well, both in investigating how such conduct could take place at the court under your watch, and in ensuring that such conduct does not happen again.” A ProPublica report last week detailed gifts of trips on jets and private yachts, as well as luxury accommodations, accepted by Thomas over two decades from Dallas real estate magnate Harlan Crow but never reported. That included a 2019 “island hopping” vacation with costs that “could have exceeded $500,000,” along with travel to California’s Bohemian Grove retreat for men, and Crow’s East Texas ranch.
It did little to assuage the 74-year-old justice’s critics, who insist the lack of reporting ran afoul of a Watergate-era law requiring justices and other federal officials to disclose most gifts they receive and that tougher rules for the justices are needed. The nine justices of the Supreme Court are the only federal judges who aren’t formally bound by a code of conduct.
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