Influential Democrats and judicial advocates are demanding motion after a ProPublica report revealed on Thursday outlined Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas’ undisclosed ties to GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
Thomas “has accepted luxurious journeys just about yearly” from Crow for greater than twenty years with out reporting them, ProPublica reported, citing journey data and interviews. Thomas’ failure to reveal the journeys seems to violate a regulation requiring judges, members of Congress and different federal officers to report most presents, together with personal jet flights, based on the article.
Brian Fallon, the chief director of Demand Justice, a progressive judicial advocacy group, referred to as on the Senate to not let “this extraordinary show of corruption and lawbreaking go unanswered.”
“Senate Democrats can't pressure Thomas to resign or give him the impeachment trial he clearly deserves, however they'll maintain hearings to additional expose Justice Thomas’ obvious lawbreaking and the Republican justices’ deep ties to far-right donors,” Fallon mentioned.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, referred to as for extra oversight over the courtroom, which lacks a binding ethics code.
“This cries out for the type of unbiased investigation that the Supreme Court docket — and solely the Supreme Court docket, throughout the complete authorities — refuses to carry out,” Whitehouse mentioned.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) mentioned Thomas must be impeached.
“That is past get together or partisanship. This diploma of corruption is stunning — virtually cartoonish,” she wrote on Twitter.
Thomas has already been beneath hearth over ethics points. He did not recuse himself in a case introduced by President Donald Trump in search of to dam the Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot from acquiring entry to White Home paperwork and communications, though his spouse labored with Trump supporters to undo the 2020 election.
Thomas ignored ProPublica’s questions and has not responded to its report.
Crow instructed ProPublica he and his spouse by no means mentioned any circumstances with Thomas, and “by no means sought to affect Justice Thomas on any authorized or political situation.”
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