AP News - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin says his committee’s ethics investigation into the Supreme Court has uncovered at least three additional trips given to Justice Clarence Thomas by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. In the past, Thomas has maintained that he is not required to disclose the many family trips that were paid for by the Texas megadonor because Crow and his wife Kathy are “among our dearest friends." There was no immediate comment from the court on the Senate report. The committee has pushed the Supreme Court to adopt a stronger ethics code as trips by Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito came to light. An ethics code adopted by the justices in November treats travel, food and lodging as expenses rather than gifts, for which monetary values must be reported. However, Justices aren’t required to attach a value to expenses. Read more.
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