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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to investigate its most conservative member, Justice Clarence Thomas, for not disclosing various expensive gifts he received over the years from personal friend and Republican “megadonor” Harlan Crow.
On April 6, ProPublica reported that Thomas has for years received “luxury trips” around the world from Crow, a Dallas real estate developer, including on Crow’s private yacht and jet. “These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures,” ProPublica says, which “appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said.”
The outlet claims that Crow’s generosity has given him a “unique form of access” to Thomas, “spending days in private with one of the most powerful people in the country.”
“As friends do, we have joined [Crow and his wife Kathy] on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them,” Thomas responded in a joint statement with his wife Ginni. “Early
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