Justice Clarence Thomas did not disclose additional luxury trips funded by billionaire patron

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Saturday 21 December 2024 20:47 GMT


Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose two trips — which hadn’t been publicly reported — paid for by a billionaire Republican donor, a new Congressional report reveals. In the wake of ProPublica’s explosive 2023 report into Thomas’ failures to disclose his ties to wealthy donor Harlan Crow, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee conducted a 20-month investigation into the ethics challenges at the Supreme Court.

The report — spanning 97 pages plus 824 pages of supporting documents — was released Saturday, detailing two additional trips paid for by Crow that Thomas hadn’t previously disclosed.

More broadly, the report also captured an array of conflicts of interest and undisclosed gifts by justices, prompting the panel to recommend the nation’s highest court establish an enforceable code of conduct. Both 2021 trips had not been reported publicly before.

In July, Crow flew Thomas from Omaha, Nebraska, to Saranac, New York, on his private jet and hosted him at Camp Topridge, Crow’s 105-acre property in the Adirondacks. The second occurred months later in October, when Crow flew Thomas roundtrip from Washington, D.C. to New Jersey for the dedication of a statue. The conservative justice stayed with the billionaire in New York on his yacht, the report says. These trips were revealed in a letter from Crow to the committee.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/justice-clarence-thomas-luxury-trips-billionaire-b2668448.html

[Old Crank]

1. Nothing will happen

The GOP judges are all on the take.
The must feel that they must get their share of the loot from the Trumo Elon pillaging.

[NotHardly]

8. Thomas is a lying grifter inflated by billionaires & accountable to no one and no thing

"rules for thee but not for me."... the reportedly 'highest court in the land' with the lowest ethics. I'm pretty certain it is not what the 1st Congress intended. I imagine the Founding Fathers rolling in their graves.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Isn't there a penalty for lying on disclosure submissions?

Most people would be in serious trouble by now.

[Irish_Dem]

3. High level GOP are totally immune from all their crimes and wrong doing.

They are all allowed to lie, cheat, steal as much as they want.
Commit treason, sell classified documents, plan an insurrection, rape, do drugs.

You name the crime, they can do it with no consequences.

[cadoman]

4. did the repukes intentionally appoint the most corrupt and incompetent Black man they could find?

Simply to poison the well for qualified Black candidates to the court in the future? This man and his air-headed insurrectionist wife are RV and billionaire vacation party obsessed fools.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. It was done intentionally

to derisively counter one of the most consequential (and first black) Supreme Court Justices who had served on the court - Thurgood Marshall.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. One of six corrupt justices.

Traitors.

[jvill]

7. The Supreme Court is corrupt to the bone. They should get zero credibility.

Just outright taking bribes. This is government run by MAGAts.

[republianmushroom]

9. So what .

Ethics ? Ha Ha Ha, the lack there of is the hall mark of the roberts court of 6 out of 9.

[SharonAnn]

10. Apparently there's no end to his ethical problems.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Same old pattern -- in any month ending in 'r' or 'y', another Thomas scandal surfaces. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Justice Clarence Thomas took a July 2021 private jet trip to Saranac, New York, and an October 2021 private jet and yach

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

13. OH--no doubt Thomas will make a correction and nothing else will happen IMHO