In a new filing released today, Justice Clarence Thomas amended his financial disclosure for 2019 to note that he “inadvertently omitted” reporting two extravagant vacations paid for by conservative billionaire Harlan Crow, one to Indonesia and the other to the Bohemian Grove, an all-male retreat in northern California. Just slipped his mind! Hey, it could happen to anybody! Who hasn’t completely forgotten about a luxury trip they have enjoyed on the dime of a politically active tycoon? Heck, I know I just remembered one today, after I read this story. Well, it’s all better now; Thomas just retroactively corrected his lie of omission from five years ago.
Anyone who accepts this is ethically estopped from complaining about the White House editing Joe Biden’s blabberings to make him sound less like he belongs in a hospice.
Pro Publica correctly notes that last year, when these and other examples unusual largess from Crow—like paying for Thomas’s mother’s house—were revealed, Thomas’s “Justice Thomas’s lawyers issued a statement on the Justice’s behalf. saying that the allegations were untrue.
Like all lawyers, Supreme Court Justices are prohibited from lying in the course of their professional conduct. The prohibition on lawyer conduct is serious, but even more serious for judges, and extra-special, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious serious for the highest judges in the land.
Thomas is a disgrace, as I have said before.
But at least he never let his wife fly a 250-year-old historical flag that some idiots used to express their own political opinions…
I agree. And as thankful as I am that he’s been on the Court these last thirty years, he should go. If one of the more liberal judges was doing this, most of us conservatives would be all over it. I don’t need to repeat all of my talking points on this subject, but the best we can probably hope for is a GOP victory in November, followed by a Thomas retirement and the appointment of another justice that adheres strictly to the Constitution and doesn’t cry when writing opinions.
RBG really should have retired, but no doubt she was confident in a Clinton win.
Hopefully Thomas doesn’t make the same mistake. I Trump wins, Thomas needs to retire.