Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds

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The Supreme Court is facing calls to reform its ethics after controversies involving the justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted millions of dollars' worth of gifts over two decades on the bench, according to a new data analysis.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted millions of dollars' worth of gifts over the past two decades on the bench, a total nearly 10 times the value of all gifts received by his fellow justices during the same time, according to aThomas received 103 gifts with a total value of more than $2.4 million between 2004 and 2023, the judicial reform group

The group also factored in data from the Congressional Record, the justices' annual financial disclosures, other news sources, and its own law clerk-led research. The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose career on the court spanned 33 years until 2005, accepted just six gifts, with a total value of less than $13,000.

Fix the Court noted that the total figures it calculated for gift values are likely lower than the actual values because the analysis erred on the low end of the cost of some gifts, such as free travel or tickets to sports games.

 

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