Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poses for the official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7, 2022.has finally decided to disclose gifts he received from a GOP megadonor. The gifts in question were reported on last year by ProPublica, kicking off an ethical scandal surrounding the longtime conservative justice.
Thomas, in a financial disclosure made public on Friday, acknowledged that conservative billionaire Harlan Crow paid for Thomas to join him on trips to Bali and California in 2019. Thomas wrote in the filing that he “inadvertently omitted” the gifts from Crow in previous filings and that his inclusion of the gifts on this year’s filing came after he “sought and received guidance from his accountant and ethics counsel.
The admission isn’t likely to assuage many concerns about the Supreme Court working in accordance with the far-right first and Constitution second. Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, played a role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election results, and Thomas has refused to recuse himself from cases pertaining to that effort. Justice Samuel Alito has also refused to recuse himself from Jan.
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