"Clarence Thomas' Private Trips on GOP Donor's Plane: Security or Ethics Concern?"

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas disclosed that he accepted private jet trips from Republican donor Harlan Crow in 2022 to attend a speech in Texas and a vacation at Crow's New York estate. Thomas cited increased security risk following the leak of the Dobbs opinion overturning Roe v. Wade as the reason for taking private transportation. The disclosure forms also amended past reports to include a real estate deal between Thomas and Crow in 2014. Thomas has faced criticism for failing to properly disclose luxury trips and gifts from wealthy friends. Thomas' lawyer denied any willful ethics transgressions and called the criticism a "partisan feeding frenzy." Justice Samuel Alito also released his financial disclosures, revealing that a trip to Rome in 2022 was paid for by a conservative group.