Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has acknowledged previously unreported trips overseas that were paid for by his friend, conservative businessman Harlan Crow.
One of the 2019 trips was to Bali, where the justice was accompanied by his wife, Virginia. Another trip paid for by the Crows was to Sonoma County, California. Thomas on Friday released his amended 2023 financial disclosure forms — required of all federal judges — to include those earlier trips. The travel was not disclosed in the 2019 report. 'During the preparation and filing of this report, filer sought and received guidance from his accountant and ethics counsel,' the filing states.
Consistent with the review of prior filings that the filer began last year, report for calendar year 2019 is hereby amended to include the following entries under the reimbursement section, which was inadvertently omitted at the time of filing: Thomas' vacations were first documented in April 2023. Thomas issued a rare statement at the time defending the trips and explaining that he had always followed Supreme Court guidance.
Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years,' the justice, who has served on the bench for 32 years, said in a statement at the time. 'As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them.
In November, the Supreme Court issued a new 'Code of Conduct' following months of heightened scrutiny from Senate Judiciary Democrats pushing for new ethics laws for the high court.
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