an array of trips — including travel on a superyacht and private jet — Thomas took that were funded by Harlan Crow, a Dallas business executive. The publication said Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.
In a letter Monday to Roberts, Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin , who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, and fellow Democratic members of the panel urged the chief justice to investigate the claims made in the ProPublica report. The Democrats also announced that their committee will hold a hearing on the “need to restore confidence in the Supreme Court’s ethical standards.”
The ProPublica report prompted furious reactions from Democrats, some of whom called for Thomas — the court’s senior justice — to resign. It also fueled Democrats’ demands that the court adopt an enforceable code of conduct.Judiciary Committee Democrats noted that in 2012 they urged Roberts to adopt a resolution that would bind justices to the same code of conduct to which all other federal judges are sworn.
“If the Court does not resolve this issue on its own, the Committee will consider legislation to resolve it,” the Democrats wrote. “But you do not need to wait for Congress to act to undertake your own investigation into the reported conduct and to ensure that it cannot happen again.”In the letter to Roberts, Senate Judiciary Democrats said their panel has the responsibility to ensure that the Supreme Court “does not have the federal judiciary’s lowest 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,” they wrote. “We urge you to immediately open such an investigation and take all needed action to prevent further misconduct.”
The Supreme Court overturned Roe because they claimed it should be relegated to the purview of the states ! If the crazy ruling of Kacsmaryk reached Supreme Court they will say it’s up to them to decide ! How very convenient!
“need to restore confidence in the Supreme Court’s ethical standards.” …,, what is that confidence in non existing ethical standards ? I am sure there are others in the Supreme Court enjoying the billionaires lavishes !
Robert is not happy that thomas didn’t take him in his billionaire’s private vacation ?
WokeGarbage
That's what happens when a billionaire wants just one black friend.
WaPo of course fails to point out that ProPublica is financed by every big name left wing group in the U.S. It's one of those inconvenient facts that often fails to surface in today's mainstream media reporting.
They need to worry about restoring confidence and trust in the Congress first. What a bunch of clowns.
Dems;just a few months ago wanted to change the Supreme court into a political body;anything for a win is what democrats want;no matter what it does to democracy.Dems don't want real freedom only power Democrats lie&create words that imply one thing but actually say the opposite
We all have hobbies...and a SecretStory
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There’s nothing to investigate. It wasn’t against the rules, the rules changed last month and he said he would now follow the new rules.
Good for Clarence. Man needs a nice vacation every now and then to get away from all the left wing attacks.
The Biden Crime Family took hundreds of millions in illegal foreign bribes from our enemies. But Joe Biden is not a Black Conservative Republican, so it is OK by your standards
Nothingburger.
LMFAO- now do the rest of the scum bags. Both parties! People here are thinking this is literally just one person or one side is absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah when somebody is giving you that much free shit- oh your answering there texts, returning their phone calls, and inviting them to your parties!
Find the leaker of the roe document first.
Who paid for AOC's $30k Met Gala ticket? Uphold these standards to the other two branches of the federal gov't.
But let's not talk about the leak of the Dobbs decision just Thomas taking trips with family friends.
100000 kids on ventilators....
13 trips on Lolita Express!!!!
well lets get all the corruption out or are we just after republicans?
First: LETS FIND THE DOBBS LEAKER HOW ABOUT THAT? It was leaked by one of the progressive justices. That person should be impeached and removed.
The Democrat party is the world's largest money laundering crime syndicate. So no, they don't get to have an opinion on this subject.
Like President Biden and his family stayed in a twenty million dollar beach front property for free.
Senate Democrats are the last people that should talk 😂😂😂😂
Where is BLM? Racist Dems going after a Black American?
How many Democratic Congresspersons and Senators voted to relax rail regulations in Norfolk Southern’s RICO operation?
The nonsense of having a rich friend that enjoys your company: He vacations with a rich friend, who also pays for dinner! Is this the best they’ve got? Clarence Thomas’ real offense is being black and conservative 🤦🏻♀️
Only racist Democrats feel this way. No case has co e before the Court that might have been affected by it, even if he wasn't honorable. Republicans aren’t scuzzballs.
was he on the epstein flight logs tho?
BeverlyFolkers You have to have ethical standards in the first place in order to have them restored! This Supreme Court has never had those!
Yawn 🥱🥱🥱🥱 it is not illegal to do that for a supreme Court Justice. Democrat nominated supreme Court justices also accept gifts from their millionaire donors . And more than likely socialist George Soros
Screw the Democrats. I would like to see all of the vacations that the whole Congress has taken for years on our taxpayer dime. I didn’t approve of that, did you?
Watch it and thank me later. They have brainwashed a generation to hate this man to hijack the Supreme Court.
didn't have to
Where’s the outrage over 233 trips by Justice Breyer? Oh…he gets a pass.
Look, the press and the Democrats have decided to get rid of the black guy they don't control!
There are no Laws, Rules, Standard... it's a race to the bottom... THANK YOU GOP
Why are Democrats such Racists…it’s not about gifts it’s about Thomas the eugenists Democrats have NEVER FORGOTTEN NOR FORGIVEN Thomas for leaving the plantation
The only way to restore confidence in the SCOTUS is judge can only serve one term, limit judge terms to 10 yrs. Judge age limit to be considered is 65 yrs old, Establish appropriate policies and penalties.
Nothing illegal. Nothing unethical. Nothing to investigate.
Propublica is just as fake as The Washington Post though
He didn’t “accept luxury trips,” his family has been vacationing with his friends family who happens to be wealthy for decades. He may donate to Republican candidates but what does that have to do with Justice Thomas? He has no campaign and a lifetime appointment. A Non-story
Skip the partial middlemen and start the investigation with information already provided. And be sure to target Qanon insurrectionist Ginni as well. Drain the SCOTUS swamp! StackTheCourt FuckingTraitors FuckNazis
The attempted lynching of Clarence Thomas hearkens back to the Democrat/KKK Louisiana Massacre.
What did Jackson do!?
I think it's time for Congress to stop investigating things, &start legislating. I also think it's time for TheJusticeDept to stop waiting for Congress to do its work for it. Maybe if justice was more swift, we wouldn't have this GOP corruption at the core of our government.
Dims: black man bad
So did Ginsberg, they are not required to report. Ridiculous
It doesn’t surprise me that wapo doesn’t know what a friend is.
This isn’t even news to report this is a distraction nobody cares that much about some guy getting gifts from undisclosed entities
Ethics LOL in the beltway there is no such word. You have justices who are activist. Hell one can’t define a what a women is an she is a woman.
Pretty much all political entities take gifts and bribes that they don’t disclose to anyone about, and now all of a sudden it’s magically a big deal because a so called black man did it too, when the so called white man has been doing it literally since forever
GFY
LOL! My ass You guys are just pissed Ruth died and let Trump replace her
'Isa still ya boy, aint I'
Apparently this used to be a respectable publication made up of actual journalists. What happened?
Actually it's the Senate Judiciary Committee that should do that. Roberts and Thomas no longer seem to be solid, true, but they're still longtime colleagues who worked in consort for nearly 18 yrs to accomplish jaw-dropping rulings, sometimes out of thin air, e.g. Citizens ...
“Thomas said Crow and his wife, Kathy, were among the “dearest friends” of the justice and his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas.” FYI, Harlan Crow is known nazi sympathizer.
Ethical Standards need to be restored for about 85% of career politicians in DC, let's statt with Pelosi's insider trading and work from there
There’s only one way restore confidence in the Supreme Court. Justice Thomas should resign. Then open up an investigation on the rest of the members of the court & who else has not been reporting gifts. Then we’ll have transparency.
Before anyone defends Thomas, replace his name with Sotomayor and 'prominent republican donor' with Soros... Then let's hear your insights.
The leaker has yet to be prosecuted.
Demoncraps are desperate to seize the only branch they don’t control
Lol..let's start with Biden extortion of Ukraine.
Democrats, confidence and ethical standards, three things democrats don't portray.
Question the Federalist Society suggestions.
They quietly prefer King George the 3rd's gig & likely were hoping the Trump-led 1-6-21 US Capitol Insurrection Ginni Clarence Thomas coproduced attempted coup would have succeeded
ProPublica , National Enquirer, what’s the difference?
How about '10% for the Big Guy' money? Are those gifts or straight up money laundering?
Good
This court is corrupt and Roberts has no intention of reigning the corruption in. Thomas lacks ethics.
The only way the SC will be able to restore any semblance of trust is to impeach Thomas and get rid of him. He never was a good lawyer and it shows he is not very intelligent if he feels what he did was ok.
He asked way back when if this had to be done, since it’s a close friend and has no business with him or the courts. Why now, we ask? We know.
SCOTUS thinks they are above the law. Let's say no they aren't!!!
Even Roberts is full of conflict of interest with his wife, none of them will do what’s right.
We need Fortified Ramen Noodles 😀
Party of the Klan picking on the only black man on the court .
Do you honestly believe that a donor gave Clearance Thomas, of all people, money to become more conservative than he already was?
Roberts has been chief Justice since 2005 and has done absolutely nothing to instill ethics, a code of conduct or any accountability to his Court. Congress will have to force the issue.
If his wife is a “gift” have at it!
The bigots are bigoting.
You commies are big mad about not being able to kill black babies in every state.
No way to argue accepting millions from a conservative billionaire is a legitimate practice for a SC Justice. But then he’s never been impartial and his wife is clearly lopsided towards the right….
Man had to eat dammit! It takes a lot to keep his conflicts fed.
Damn if only they controlled the Senate Judiciary Committee they could investigate themselves. Now to take a big sip of water and read the Wikipedia for who controls the US Senate
Dems be like
Did they also report that there was no requirement to declare anything until they changed the rules last month?
This judge is so conservative that he conserves even his own salary
that wont be possible until he's no longer there
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