Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans are staying silent in the wake of a report alleging Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted more luxury vacations and other lavish gifts than had been previously known.
Democrats on the committee, meanwhile, are reiterating their calls for the Supreme Court to implement an ethics code, either by Chief Justice John Roberts or an act of Congress.The ProPublica report, published Thursday, claims that the associate justice has accepted at least 38 vacations, 26 international private jet flights , 12 VIP passes to sporting events, and two resort stays during his time on the court. The report also revealed his ties to a number of billionaire benefactors.
On the Democratic side, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said, “The latest ProPublica revelation of unreported lavish gifts to Justice Clarence Thomas makes it clear: these are not merely ethical lapses. This is a shameless lifestyle underwritten for years by a gaggle of fawning billionaires.”
“Clearly there is a lot more we still don’t know about the extent to which right-wing billionaires have underwritten Justice Thomas’s billionaire-like lifestyle over the years,” the Rhode Island senator said. “From fossil fuels to hedge funds, these billionaires’ fortunes were made in industries regularly affected by the Court’s rulings.”
Sen. Peter Welch noted in a post on X, “With every new scandal, the Supreme Court shows it isn’t policing itself.” Judiciary Republicans told the Washington Examiner in response to the Sotomayor news that they would support Roberts initiating an ethics code for the court, but none were behind Congress establishing those rules.
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