US Senators seek probe into report on undisclosed luxury trips by Supreme Court's Thomas

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WASHINGTON: Conservative US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for decades accepted luxury trips from a Dallas businessman without publicly disclosing them despite a federal law requiring disclosure of most gifts, a media report said on Thursday (Apr 6), prompting Senate Democrats to call for an investigation

The report by ProPublica found that Thomas has repeatedly vacationed with real estate magnate and Republican donor Harlan Crow, including on his private jet and superyacht in the United States and around the globe. The news outlet said the frequency of the gifts have"no known precedent in the modern history of the US Supreme Court."

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin said his panel"will act" based on the report, without specifying what steps it would take. "This cries out for the kind of independent investigation that the Supreme Court - and only the Supreme Court, across the entire government - refuses to perform," Whitehouse said on Twitter.

 

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