Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas did not report not less than three personal jet journeys paid for by billionaire political donor Harlan Crow, in accordance with a brand new report from the Senate judiciary committee.
Crow himself offered the data to Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ailing.) on Thursday following a subpoena.
The newly revealed items had been absent from Thomas’ annual monetary disclosure final week, through which he admitted to taking two 2019 journeys ― paid for by Crow ― that Thomas stated had been “inadvertently omitted” from his earlier disclosures.
The 2 2019 journeys had been disclosed after a 2023 ProPublica investigation discovered that Thomas had accepted journeys from the Republican megadonor.
The most recent particulars present that Thomas took personal jets thrice between 2017 and 2021. Thomas has taken greater than $4 million in items since his appointment to the nation’s highest courtroom three many years in the past.
A report from the judicial reform group Repair the Court docket confirmed that Thomas’ fellow justices had accepted items with a mixed worth of $248,000, far under the quantity Thomas alone has accepted.
Crow, in the meantime, has spent greater than $16 million supporting conservative political causes, in accordance with watchdog group Residents for Duty and Ethics in Washington.
In an announcement, Durbin stated the investigation into Thomas’ items remains to be underway.
“The Senate Judiciary Committee’s ongoing investigation into the Supreme Court docket’s moral disaster is producing new info ― like what we’ve revealed at this time ― and makes it crystal clear that the best courtroom wants an enforceable code of conduct, as a result of its members proceed to decide on to not meet the second,” Durbin stated Thursday.
A spokesperson for the Supreme Court docket didn’t instantly reply to JHB’s request for remark.