Supreme Court's Corrupt Financial Ties To Billionaire Exposed During Senate Hearing

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) used a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Supreme Court ethics on Tuesday to discuss the financial ties between Justice Clarence Thomas and conservative billionaire Harlan Crow.

Whitehouse cited a recent ProPublica report that found that Thomas and his wife, Ginni, have accepted lavish vacations and other gifts from Crow over the past two decades.

The report also found that Crow's companies purchased three properties from the Thomases for more than $100,000, but that Thomas did not disclose these transactions on his financial disclosure forms.
Whitehouse argued that Thomas's failure to disclose these gifts and transactions raises serious questions about his ethics.

"The Supreme Court is the most powerful court in the world, and it's essential that its justices be held to the highest ethical standards," Whitehouse said. "Justice Thomas's failure to disclose these gifts and transactions calls those standards into question."

Whitehouse called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate Thomas's financial ties to Crow and to recommend reforms to the Supreme Court's ethics rules.

The committee's chairman, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), has said that he is open to considering reforms to the court's ethics rules.

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[kcolonelx]

The Senate needs to move away from gently asking and launch a full investigation into the SCOTUS financial conflicts including subpoenas of financial records.

[jasonwickham]

Sen. Whitehouse's series of speeches, titled "The Scheme", are all available on YT. All about the current SCOTUS and dark money. They are absolutely a must watch imo.

[portmantologist]

Man, just imagine both Whitehouse and Katie Porter in the Senate.

[jessetorres]

Facts don't care about feelings, so if Democratic Senators call out Thomas, Alito, Gorsouch, & Roberts for their corruption or lies then it seems the people who are offended by that are focused on the wrong issues.

[marcadiadd]

Nice dramatic touch to have congressional staff ringing a huge bell during your speech.

[captainez]

What happened to the idea that ignorance of the LAW is no excuse ?

[ComradeCatpurrnicus]

"Oh, sowwy, I broke the law and I'm incredibly corrupt" - Thomas
"What's your job?" - me
"Interpreting the law and being above corruption 😳" - also Thomas

[aquaticborealis]

Sheldon Whitehouse has done a phenomenal job.

[satyasyasatyasya]

*Its one big club, and we ain't in it.*

[randibgood]

It's unbelievable, disgusting, outrageous, shameful... it's a whole lot of things, but NONE of them are "supreme".

[op]

in 2003, thomas was shown to have MOST disclosed "gifts."
he never disclosed ANYTHING after that.
...bc no penalties.

[echolocationn]

DAILY REMINDER:
"I love children. I mean I REALLY LOVE children. That's why I constantly talk about their nether regions." - Literal quote from Alabama Man.
Why would you listen to anyone who has ever said this? Just report him and his horde of bots so that we can keep our children safe from reading anything from this individual.

[GNARLOUSE]

Whitehouse is a boss when it comes to SCOTUS, fed society, etc.

[willardprenfrew]

"Some textualist, by the way" THE SHADE 🔥🔥🔥

[aaronsande]

My agency has been on the wrong side of Senator Whitehouse...it's not pleasant to be there XD

[CharlesJWillard]

Your delivery is improving. Yea! Keep it up and you will have one of the best shows on YouTube.

[kflivingston]

And NOW... Where!! are "Ginni" Thomas and Clarence sup post To spend their SUMMERS????

[magcarta]

impeachment is a non-starter. take two more Senate seats, abolish the filibuster and impose mandatory rotation of Art. III judges through all federal courts including the Supreme Court.

[edbenton]

They sit on the throne of God in their minds and are untouchable.

[admdubya]

Where does the IRS come into all this? At some point gifts become taxable don’t they?