Supreme Court Justices Exempt from Ethics Rules, Says Top Democrat

Sen. Dick Durbin, chair of the Judiciary Committee, expects Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas would likely refuse to testify in front of the committee about gifts he accepted but did not disclose from a Texas billionaire. Durbin has asked Chief Justice John Roberts to appear before the committee next month to discuss judicial ethics rules in the wake of a ProPublica report that found Thomas had gone on several luxury trips Crow had subsidized. Thomas defended his decision to accept the trips he and his wife received from Harlan Crow without disclosing them to the court.