“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them,' Clarence Thomas said.
revealed on Thursday had funded at least five trips for Thomas since 2008. Among the trips, the outlet reported, included stays on the Republican donor’s 162-foot superyacht and private resorts.
The bombshell article has spurred criticism and raised questions about whether accepting gifts from a wealthy donor could create a conflict of interest for a member of the country’s highest court. Several congressional Democrats, however, have expressed outrage and called for an investigation into Thomas—and even for the justice to be“The highest court in the land shouldn’t have the lowest ethical standards,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin said in a Thursday statement, vowing that his committee would act on the matter. “This behavior is simply inconsistent with the ethical standards the American people expect of any public servant, let alone a justice on the Supreme Court.
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