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Clarence Thomas faces new impeachment calls over luxury trip gifts from GOP megadonor
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemns ‘cartoonish’ corruption after bombshell report finds Supreme Court justice accepted luxury vacations from a top Republican donor over 20 years
www.independent.co.uk
"Members of Congress are demanding investigations into long-running allegations of corruption surrounding US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is once again the subject of intense scrutiny after a bombshell investigation found him accepting luxury vacations from a Republican megadonor for more than 20 years. Justice Thomas accepted trips to Indonesia and New Zealand on board Harlan Crow’s superyacht, regularly flies on his private jet and joins annual summer trips to the Texas developer’s Adirondacks resort – trips that would otherwise cost tens of thousands of dollars but do not appear anywhere on his financial disclosures.
Ethics law experts believe the absence of such trips from those disclosure forms likely violate a law that requires justices to disclose most of the gifts they receive. A statement from Mr Crow did not deny that he extended “hospitality” to Justice Thomas and his wife Virginia “Ginni” Thomas “over the years” - In 2019, after voting in cases involving extreme partisan gerrymandering, racial discrimination on jury panels and the separation of church and state, Justice Thomas boarded Mr Crow’s private jet bound for Indonesia, a trip that could have exceeded $500,000 - During one trip to Mr Crow’s lakeside compound in the Adirondacks in 2017, the justice was joined by executives from Verizon and PricewaterhouseCoopers, major GOP donors and one of the leaders of the right-wing thinktank American Enterprise Institute, according to records reviewed by ProPublica."
The only reason they are going after this man and his wife is because he is black...that is it....in fact, he is the only real black Supreme Court Justice this country has ever had..and they are attacking him relentlessly...this is one of the most blatant examples yet of systemic racism. Why does he have to disclose trips and gifts he received from GOP donors? How does that have any bearing on his job as a judge? Why aren't we talking about the 52 million dollars personally received by Alvin Bragg from Soros, or the 88 million dollars he just sent to Fani Willis as payment for her investigation of Trump? These are actual crimes....why aren't we talking about it?