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Justice Thomas reportedly took undisclosed luxury trips

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-ethics-trips-920da69fb952beaa69f84ad16562f60f?

Justice Thomas says he didn’t have to disclose luxury trips

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday he was not required to disclose the many trips he and his wife took that were paid for by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-ethics-trips-2c0f59fd1b0d5d3617c1537a767c5325

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Justice Thomas explains why he didn't report trips paid for by billionaire

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has responded to a news report about his failure to disclose trips paid for by a conservative billionaire, saying he "was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from a close personal friend, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable."

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/07/1168649656/justice-thomas-trips?

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Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Benefactor Collects Hitler Artifacts

Harlan Crow also reportedly has a garden full of dictator statues.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/07/clarence-thomass-billionaire-benefactor-collects-hitler-artifacts/?

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Conservative donor’s Nazi memorabilia in spotlight amid revelations about his Clarence Thomas ties

(JTA) – A display of Nazi memorabilia at the home of Republican megadonor Harlan Crow has come under renewed scrutiny following revelations that Crow lavished Clarence Thomas with expensive, unreported gifts.

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/10/politics/conservative-donors-nazi-memorabilia-collection-in-spotlight-amid-revelations-about-his-clarence-thomas-ties?

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The Paid Pundits Defending Clarence Thomas And His Billionaire Benefactor

After ProPublica reported that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had failed to disclose two decades worth of luxury trips provided by billionaire conservative mega-donor Harlan Crow, right-wing pundits and think-tank staffers raced to defend Thomas and his benefactor — without mentioning what they all had in common: their own financial ties to Crow.

https://www.levernews.com/the-paid-pundits-defending-clarence-thomas-and-his-billionaire-benefactor/?

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Justice Thomas failed to report real estate deal with Texas mega donor

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative mega-donor Harlan Crow purchased three properties belonging to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his family, in a transaction worth more than $100,000 that Thomas never reported, according to the non-profit investigative journalism organization ProPublica.

https://apnews.com/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-supreme-court-ethics-7e5d967b1174f224497e53955c55434f?

Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.

In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies purchased a string of properties on a quiet residential street in Savannah, Georgia. It wasn’t a marquee acquisition for the real estate magnate, just an old single-story home and two vacant lots down the road. What made it noteworthy were the people on the other side of the deal: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his relatives.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus?

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Clarence Thomas to amend financial disclosure forms to reflect sale to GOP megadonor

Justice Clarence Thomas intends to amend his financial disclosure forms to reflect a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor – an acknowledgment that the transaction should have been disclosed almost a decade ago, a source close to Thomas tells CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/politics/clarence-thomas-amend-disclosure-gop-megadonor/index.html?

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Senate asks chief justice to testify in escalation of Thomas scrutiny

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday requested testimony from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts about ethical standards on the nation's highest court.

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/20/senate-testimony-supreme-court-clarence-thomas?

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Roberts declines Senate request to testify on court ethics

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has declined a request from the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify at a hearing next week on ethical standards at the court, instead providing the panel with a statement of ethics reaffirmed by the court’s nine justices.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roberts-thomas-durbin-testify-senate-aafe418c680c7a0a7ebdbceef82baa75

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Thomas Helped Kill Eviction Ban Threatening Benefactor’s Business

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas voted to end federal tenant protections that his billionaire benefactor’s company says threatened its real estate profit margins, according to corporate documents reviewed by The Lever. Thomas did not disclose his relationship with real estate billionaire Harlan Crow, nor did he recuse himself from the 2021 case, despite its potential impact on Crow Holdings.

https://www.levernews.com/thomas-helped-kill-eviction-ban-threatening-benefactors-business/?

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Clarence Thomas Billionaire Benefactor Harlan Crow Bought Citizenship in Island Tax Haven

Leaked documents reveal the GOP megadonor held dual citizenship in St. Kitts and Nevis as he lavished the Supreme Court justice with gifts.

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/25/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-citizenship-st-kitts/?

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Jane Roberts, who is married to Chief Justice John Roberts, made $10.3 million in commissions from elite law firms, whistleblower documents show

Two years after John Roberts' confirmation as the Supreme Court's chief justice in 2005, his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, made a pivot. After a long and distinguished career as a lawyer, she refashioned herself as a legal recruiter, a matchmaker who pairs job-hunting lawyers up with corporations and firms.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jane-roberts-chief-justice-wife-10-million-commissions-2023-4?

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Revealed: Senate investigation into Brett Kavanaugh assault claims contained serious omissions

A 2018 Senate investigation that found there was “no evidence” to substantiate any of the claims of sexual assault against the US supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh contained serious omissions, according to new information obtained by the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/28/brett-kavanaugh-investigation-omissions-senate-sexual-assault-claims?

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$30K and a Cushy Italian Trip From a Clout-Chasing Law School? “Fantastico!” Says Gorsuch

Latest Supreme Court corruption news: Court conservatives took easy money from a law school.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/gorsuch-scalia-law-school-corruption-supreme-court/?

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After revelations of luxury trips, Democrats argue U.S. Supreme Court needs ethics code

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices should follow a strict code of ethics when receiving gifts and travel or doing business with political funders and attorneys, argued Democratic senators Tuesday at a hearing that Chief Justice John Roberts declined to attend.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/05/03/after-revelations-of-luxury-trips-democrats-argue-u-s-supreme-court-needs-ethics-code/?

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Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition.

Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising “as a son.” “This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus?

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Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising “as a son.” “This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer.

So, the left wing attacks on conservatives continues and Justice Thomas is becoming another target of the these attacks. Bit strange that an unnamed White House ethics lawyer is quoted especially since leftist are committing frauds of all sorts all over the place, but we won't talk about that will we?!

Liberal SCOTUS Justice Caught in Scandal That Blows up Recent Left-Wing Attacks

For the last few weeks, a coordinated assault on the court’s conservatives has taken place, with numerous press outlets releasing reports supposedly detailing corruption. In reality, essentially everything charged amounted to nothing legally or ethically. In the case of Thomas, he was not required to report the free travel he received from long-time friend Harlan Crow. A secondary charge that Thomas misreported income also turned out to be nothing more than a simple technical mistake involving two entities with nearly identical names.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/05/03/liberal-scotus-justice-caught-in-scandal-that-blows-up-recent-left-wing-attacks-n740977

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Clarence Thomas’ Friend Acknowledges That Billionaire Harlan Crow Paid Tuition for the Child Thomas Was Raising “as a Son”

In response to ProPublica reporting, the friend said Crow covered two years of schooling for the teen, which would amount to roughly $100,000 of undisclosed gifts. Meanwhile, Democrats renewed calls for judicial ethics overhaul.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-tuition-martin-school?

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"No mention of Ginni.' Conservative activist directed money to wife of Justice Clarence Thomas

WASHINGTON − A well-known conservative legal activist who has helped shape the modern Supreme Court arranged for the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas to receive tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work, according to a report Thursday in The Washington Post.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/05/04/clarence-thomas-leonard-leo-ginni-thomas/70186040007/?

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Thomas Helped Kill Eviction Ban Threatening Benefactor’s Business

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas voted to end federal tenant protections that his billionaire benefactor’s company says threatened its real estate profit margins, according to corporate documents reviewed by The Lever. Thomas did not disclose his relationship with real estate billionaire Harlan Crow, nor did he recuse himself from the 2021 case, despite its potential impact on Crow Holdings.

https://www.levernews.com/thomas-helped-kill-eviction-ban-threatening-benefactors-business/?

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The Origins of Our Investigation Into Clarence Thomas’ Relationship With Harlan Crow

The lavish travel, real estate deal and tuition arrangements have set off a frenzy. Here’s where our reporting started and how we got the story.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-investigation-origins?

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Clarence Thomas Is the Most Corrupt of an Extremely Corrupt Supreme Court

A bombshell new report reveals just how extensively Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has allowed billionaire interests to buy him favors. But he’s far from the only one on the powerful court that’s happy to be showered in favors from the ultrarich.

https://jacobin.com/2023/04/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-corruption-billionaire-interests-far-right

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Justice Jackson reports flowers from Oprah, designer clothing as Thomas delays filing disclosure

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disclosed Wednesday that she received a $1,200 congratulatory floral display from Oprah Winfrey and $6,580 in designer clothing for a magazine photo shoot in her first months as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ethics-financial-disclosures-jackson-thomas-86c82bf325555fcdc90a2104c245c026?

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Tougher ethics rules for U.S. Supreme Court justices advocated in Senate hearing

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats for the third time this year made their case that U.S. Supreme Court justices must follow stronger ethics rules, including recusing themselves from cases where they have a financial stake or other connection to a case.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/06/15/tougher-ethics-rules-for-u-s-supreme-court-justices-advocated-in-senate-hearing/?

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Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court

In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.

https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court?