Clarence Thomas pushed back against criticism after a report revealed he had secretly accepted lavish trips funded by a GOP donor. The justice says he was “advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends ... was not reportable.”
In a statement, Thomas acknowledged that he and his wife, Ginni Thomas, had joined billionaire GOP megadonorand his wife Kathy on a number of “family trips” during the more than a quarter century they have known them. He described the couple as “among our dearest friends.”
“I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines,” he said.Following furor over GOP-donor luxury trips, Joe Biden reckons with another Clarence Thomas scandalThe guidelines are now being changed as the committee of the Judicial Conference responsible for financial disclosure for the entire federal judiciary just this past month announced new guidance, Thomas said.
The disclosures are the latest ethics controversy to dog Thomas, who also has faced tough questions about incomplete financial disclosure forms and appearances at other political gatherings of wealthy conservative donors and influencers.
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