Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow’s lawyer after records showed undisclosed flights between Hawaii and New Zealand with the Supreme Court justice in 2010.
Justice Clarence Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional private travel provided by the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow, a top Democratic senator said in a letter on Monday.
Customs and Border Protection records revealed that the justice and his wife, Virginia Thomas, took a round trip between Hawaii and New Zealand in November 2010 on Mr. Crow’s private jet, according to the letter. Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, writing to Mr. Crow’s lawyer, demanded that he supply more information about the financial relationship between the two men.
The letter, part of an inquiry that Mr. Wyden, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has opened into Mr. Crow and the justice, comes as top Democrats have urged major changes to the Supreme Court, including an enforceable code of conduct.
Mr. Wyden said the latest revelation had only increased his misgivings about the relationship between the justice and Mr. Crow, a real estate magnate. “I am deeply concerned that Mr. Crow may have been showering a public official with extravagant gifts, then writing off those gifts to lower his tax bill,” Mr. Wyden wrote.
Justice Thomas did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.
Give the poor guy a break, he’s been bribed so many times it’s hard to keep track of it all.
To that point, is there a wiki or something for all of Justice Thomas’s unethical lapses?
Clarence Sale!
All my morals and ethics absolutely MUST GO!!!
Please let “Clarence Sale” become a thing internet wide!
Lord, do I hate that man. Rules for thee, fucking peons.
Traitor filth.
No way, there’s not a chance this is true. The man occupies one of the most prestigious seats of power in the nation. You really think we’d elect some sort of corrupt traitor to the position? The allegations are so petty- even if he were corrupt, do you really think he’d sell himself so fucking cheap? Come on. Next you’ll be telling me he’s some sort of a sex pest, too.
He’s going to adjudicate their way anyway. He’s getting freebies upon threat of retirement.
It’s corruption turtles all the way down
It’s so blatantly corrupt that it hardly makes news anymore.
So when is he getting fired…?
Out of a cannon…
Into the sun…?You know what’s fucked up? He legally doesn’t have to. There are no ethics standards for justices.
As they say, it’s not the first time, it’s the first time he got caught.
does it matter? like, is it the fact that he has been bribed the issue, or the number of times he’s been bribed? duh if he’s free to do it, he’s not going to do it once.
Yes, yes, yes, of course he will, and I think the new outrage is that he is literally only disclosing the stuff he gets caught on, which begs the question, exactly how deep does his corruption run - not to mention the other “justices” (ahemcoughALITOcough)
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