Thomas has received benefits from a 'cohort of wealthy and powerful friends,' the Times reported, including people with business before the Supreme Court.
the efforts, painting Democrats’ ethics efforts as a partisan left-wing attack on conservative justices.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has also called for Thomas’ impeachment over his associations with Crow, but that’s unlikely to happen.
Thomas issued a statement following the ProPublica report about accepting trips from Crow, which said he was “advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable” on financial disclosures.
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