7/29/2023 0 Comments Images of supremeBy accepting the trips, Thomas has broken long-standing norms for judges’ conduct, ethics experts and four current or retired federal judges said. Through his largesse, Crow has gained a unique form of access, spending days in private with one of the most powerful people in the country. In a statement, Crow acknowledged that he’d extended “hospitality” to the Thomases “over the years,” but said that Thomas never asked for any of it and it was “no different from the hospitality we have extended to our many other dear friends.” Thomas did not respond to a detailed list of questions. Justin Elliott can be reached by email at or by Signal or WhatsApp at 77. Josh Kaplan can be reached by email at and by Signal or WhatsApp at 73. If you have information about Harlan Crow and Justice Clarence Thomas, travel by Supreme Court justices or anything else we should know about the judiciary, please get in touch. ProPublica plans to continue reporting on the judiciary. He also should have disclosed his trips on the yacht, these experts said. His failure to report the flights 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. These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures. The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe. Credit:įor more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, front left, with Harlan Crow, back right, and others in Flores, Indonesia, in July 2019.
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