ProPublica has uncovered yet another scandal surrounding the corrupt right-wing Supreme Court justice.
to attend the 2018 swearing in of ultraconservative judge James Ho. Thomas, of course, conducted the ceremony.Sen. Dick Durbin , chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said Thursday that the committee would take action on this information. “This behavior is simply inconsistent with the ethical standards the American people expect of any public servant, let alone a Justice on the Supreme Court.
The astounding reporting from ProPublica leads to a conclusion we’ve all come to expect: the Supreme Court is the least accountable part of our government, and nothing is going to change without a wholesale, lawmaker-led reimagining of its responsibilities when it comes to basic measures of oversight.do not go far enough: the Supreme Court and lower courts need the same, if not stricter, gift and travel rules than what members of Congress have.
Remember, if a judge or justice took a flight on a private plane today, the public would not learn about it until their 2023 disclosure comes out, which would be mid-June 2024 at the earliest . Such an unnecessary delay makes real oversight impossible. And Justice Thomas should update his disclosures for every year he took a private plane, as it appears that such luxurious travel has never been included under the “personal hospitality exemption.
Finally, when considering what steps should be taken to further investigate these trips, it might be helpful to imagine if today’s news was not about Justice Thomas and Harlan Crow but about, say, Justice Sotomayor and a major Democratic donor. My guess is that House Republicans would spring into action so quickly they’d forget about Hunter Biden for a while.
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