The Supreme Court justice is talking out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to reporting lavish gifts from his conservative billionaire pals.
As the court’s leading originalist, he insists that he can identify definite meanings from the opaque language of the Constitution, which was written in 1787. When it comes to his own financial disclosures, however, Thomas evidently expects us to forget what he said just last year, no matter how definitive it seemed at the time, in favor of a flatly contradictory new explanation. Although he is adamant in rejecting a “living Constitution,” he appears to be an advocate of evolving explanations.
In other words, the exclusions were intentional. Endeavoring to follow the advice of his senior colleagues, he would have had to determine that Crow “did not have business before the court,” before making a conscious decision to withhold information about their “family trips.”to his 2019 financial disclosure to include an Indonesian vacation taken with Crow, this time saying that the information had been “inadvertently omitted at the time of filing.
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