'Ethics be damned': Legal experts aghast over bombshell report on Clarence Thomas' luxury lifestyle [View all]
In the wake of the latest bombshell report revealing incriminating details about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' luxurious lifestyle, legal experts are weighing in with critical remarks and concerns as calls for accountability increase.
According to the new report:
"For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on [Harlan] Crow’s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks."
The report also emphasized: “The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Now, legal experts have taken to Twitter with ethical concerns as they've pointed out the many issues with Thomas' conflicts of interest.
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Clarence Thomas Ruled on Bribery Case While Accepting Vacations
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas voted in a unanimous Supreme Court decision to overturn a bribery conviction against a former Virginia governor in 2016 while allegedly accepting luxurious vacations from a top Republican donor at the same time.
Thomas has faced increasing scrutiny recently after news broke regarding Thomas' wife, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas advocating for overturning the 2020 election results. The public has since called for his resignation, and in September, SCOTUS received its lowest approval rating among Americans according to a Gallup poll.
An April 6 report by the investigative journalism organization ProPublica alleging that Thomas had accepted extravagant trips with Republican donor Harlan Crow has intensified the scrutiny, with many ethics experts now questioning if Thomas acted poorly by accepting the gifts and neglecting to disclose them.
In June 2016, Thomas joined the seven other justices in vacating and remanding a lower court's conviction against former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. McDonnell was convicted of committing favors for a businessman who allegedly paid him with more than $175,000 worth of gifts, cash and loans, but the Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors had been unable to prove the favors as "official acts" during McDonnell's tenure.
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