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"Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips around the globe for more than two decades, including travel on a superyacht and private jet, from a prominent Republican donor without disclosing them, according to a new report.

ProPublica reported Thursday on an array of trips funded by
Harlan Crow, a Dallass businessman. The publication said Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks. It said the justice also has vacationed at Crow’s ranch in East Texas and has joined Crow at the Bohemian Grove, an exclusive all-male retreat in California."
 
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"This story is a perfect example, in miniature, of how Thomas’ network of benefactors ensure the justices billionaire lifestyle stays off the books. Paoletta testifies before Congress that ethics reforms are evil; Crow funds the Republican lawmakers who ensure ethics reforms don’t pass; and nobody knows the extent of Thomas’ unceasing stream of gifts until ProPublica reporters wrangle the details from yacht crews and flight records."
 
"This story is a perfect example, in miniature, of how Thomas’ network of benefactors ensure the justices billionaire lifestyle stays off the books. Paoletta testifies before Congress that ethics reforms are evil; Crow funds the Republican lawmakers who ensure ethics reforms don’t pass; and nobody knows the extent of Thomas’ unceasing stream of gifts until ProPublica reporters wrangle the details from yacht crews and flight records."
 
"I do wonder if, while sitting in a deck chair on a yacht sailing around Indonesia, drinking some fancy cocktail made with some very expensive liquor, attended to hand and foot, he didn’t hear a little voice saying, “Maybe you should tell people about this?” He had to know there’s a difference between a neighbor giving you a burger and a beer and a man giving you the trip of a lifetime — and doing it almost every year for 20 years.

His former Supreme Court clerk John Yoo, now a professor at Berkeley Law School, told the New York Times that Mr. Thomas can’t be influenced by such things.

People in positions like his want a private life and not have every friendship and relation scrutinized. Any of us would feel the same way. But someone who accepts a position as one of the most powerful people in America gives up some of his privacy.

That’s the deal. We give you power, you tell us when people
give you things. You let us check up on you. If you want to take up a life of public service at that level, you should accept a life of public transparency. Clarence Thomas took the power but not the openness."
 
"As Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under heightened scrutiny for accepting lavish trips from a GOP billionaire megadonor, he has also been disclosing income from a now-defunct real estate company, The Washington Post reported.

Over the last two decades, Thomas has been reporting on required financial disclosures rental income from a family real estate company –
but the company ceased operations in 2006."
 
"Insisting that the court’s integrity is above reproach does not make it so. And in the year since the leak, there has been a series of troubling revelations about the court, including new information about Republican-appointed justices’ financial, personal, and professional links to wealthy individuals and powerful institutions that sustain the right-wing legal movement. If conservatives on the high court are worried about its long-term legitimacy, they might want to reconsider those entanglements."
 
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