Opinion by Ruth Marcus: It’s time for Clarence Thomas to come clean
on Friday was unconvincing, blaming others for his missteps: “Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable.”Maybe he should have looked at the text. The ethics rules do carve out an exemption for personal hospitality.
a “facility.” But if you did, you’d have to deal with this provision, specifying that “any food, lodging or entertainment received as personal hospitality of an individual need not be reported.
“That this is not the sort of gift thought likely to affect a judge’s impartiality is suggested by the fact that the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 …, excludes from this requirement transportation provided by the United States,” Scalia wrote. Indeed, Thomas himself apparently used to think Crow-paid travel was, in fact, “reportable.” In 1997, Crow flew Thomas on his plane to the exclusive
because he had failed to list his wife’s employment with the Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College “due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions.” Seriously? The instructions aren’t difficult: You don’t have to report the amount of your spouse’s income, but you do have to say who’s writing the check.
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