The news that Ginni Thomas was secretly paid tens of thousands of dollars in 2012 by a political-advocacy group is shocking but not especially surprising, JaneMayerNYer writes. Such payments actually have been ordinary business on the Supreme Court.
But we are learning that such payments actually have been “ordinary business” on the Court. In fact, as I, similar but even larger undisclosed payments were made to Ginni Thomas in 2017 and 2018.
Almost as troubling as the details of these ethical lapses is the fact that neither of these payments to Ginni Thomas would be known today except for random happenstance brought to light by investigative reporters. Judges are required to publicly report outside income in their annual financial disclosures, including approximate amounts earned by their spouses.
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