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Clarence Thomas has accepted undisclosed luxury trips from GOP megadonor for decades, report says

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted secret luxury trips from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow for more than two decades, ProPublica reported.
The trips appear to violate a law requiring disclosure for private jet flights.
Thomas has come under fire from ethics experts and other critics over his wife Ginni Thomas political activities.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted secret luxury trips from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow for more than two decades in apparent violation of a financial disclosure law, a ProPublica report revealed Thursday.
Thomas has vacationed on Crows 162-foot superyacht, flown on the real estate developers private jet and spent time at the GOP donors private resort and other exclusive retreats, ProPublica reported, citing documents and dozens of interviews.

Thomas, the 74-year-old conservative associate justice who has served on the nations highest court since 1991, has not reported the trips on his financial disclosures as required by law, the nonprofit newsroom reported.
The investigation offers more fuel for Thomas critics, who say his refusal to recuse himself from cases touching on issues related to his wifes political work in conservative circles including her involvement in schemes to overturn the 2020 election poses a conflict of interest.
Ethics experts and ex-judges interviewed by ProPublica were incredulous. Thomas seems to have completely disregarded his higher ethical obligations, Virginia Canter, chief ethics counsel at the watchdog group CREW, told the outlet.
When a justices lifestyle is being subsidized by the rich and famous, it absolutely corrodes public trust, Canter said.
Spokespeople for the Supreme Court and Crow did not immediately respond to CNBCs request for comment on the investigation.

In a statement to ProPublica, Crow said, The hospitality we have extended to the Thomass over the years is no different from the hospitality we have extended to our many other dear friends.
Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, never asked for any of the gifts, nor for any of the contributions the Crows have made to projects celebrating the justices life and legacy, the megadonor said. Crow added that he and his wife have never asked about a pending or lower court case, and Justice Thomas has never discussed one, and we have never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue.
Crow, a Texas real estate magnate, became friends with Thomas after he joined the Supreme Court. He has given more than $10 million in publicly disclosed political donations, and unknown amounts to groups that arent required to reveal their donors, ProPublica reported.
Thomas typically spends about a week each summer at Topridge, Crows private lakeside resort in the Adirondacks, and flight records show he has used Crows plane numerous times, according to the news outlet.
In 2019, shortly after the court shared its final opinion of the term, Clarence and Ginni Thomas took off on Crows private jet for a nine-day vacation in Indonesia aboard the donors yacht a trip that cost more than $500,000, according to ProPublica.
The report also cited records showing that Thomas had been at Topridge at the same time as major GOP donors, corporate executives and a leader of the conservative American Enterprise Institute during a July 2017 trip.
A painting hanging inside the lakeside resort shows Thomas and Crow smoking cigars and chatting with conservative figures, the report said. They include Leonard Leo, the influential Federalist Society leader credited with helping former President Donald Trump pick his judicial nominations and shift federal courts to the right.
Crow contended in his statement that he was unaware of any of our friends ever lobbying or seeking to influence Justice Thomas on any case.
Supreme Court justices are constrained by fewer ethical restrictions than lower rungs of the judiciary. Some groups have called to implement a code of ethics for the high court.
But justices still submit financial disclosures, and experts say they are required to disclose all gifts valued at more than $415. While there are exceptions to that requirement, transportation is not one of them.
If Justice Thomas received free travel on private planes and yachts, failure to report the gifts is a violation of the disclosure law, Kedric Payne, senior ethics director for the Campaign Legal Center, told the outlet.

Even if something happens, republicans will block every nomination since elections are around the corner.

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This. Democrats and the DOJ/FBI are enablers, appeasers, and cowards and also have sympathizers. Americans are too cowed. The fascists already won.

In a good country, he'd actually be held accountable and at the very least removed from his position.

But this is America.

This. Democrats and the DOJ/FBI are enablers, appeasers, and cowards and also have sympathizers. Americans are too cowed. The fascists already won.

This is why I tell people that liberalism enables fascism.

In any reasonable country he could be slapped with corruption charges and removed from his position.

Republicans are corrupted to the core, it's run by criminals and traitors in that party and their base are okay with that for some reason.

Republicans are corrupted to the core, it's run by criminals and traitors in that party and their base are okay with that for some reason.

Because republicans only care about owning the libs even if they own themselves even more in the process

and nothing will happen

and nothing will happen