Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked GOP megadonor Harlan Crow to turn over information about the gifts and financial benefits he has provided Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in an attempt to learn more about their relationship.
In a letter this week, committee Democrats led by Chairman Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois asked Mr. Crow and the entities that own his Topridge Camp, private yacht and private jet to detail how many visits Justice Thomas or any other justice had to the properties.
The senators asked for answers by May 22 to help the committee craft legislation geared at formalizing a code of ethics for high court justices. The tuition total could have cost more than $150,000, according to ProPublica. Justice Thomas did not disclose the payments in his financial disclosure forms, and the news outlet suggested that runs afoul of ethical standards required of a federal judge.
The New York Times followed with a piece critical of Justice Thomas and other Republican appointees collecting generous salaries to teach courses at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law. The high court currently doesn’t have a mandatory code of ethics, even though lower court judges are expected to avoid impropriety or do business with anyone who may come before the bench.
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