"U.S. Supreme Court Under Scrutiny for Ethics and Gift-Giving"
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The Senate Judiciary Committee has asked billionaire Harlan Crow to provide a full accounting of the free travel and other gifts he has made to Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas or any other justice, marking an escalation of the powerful committee’s efforts to convince the Supreme Court to adopt stricter ethical standards for itself. The Judiciary Committee is now the second Senate committee to target Crow after ProPublica reported that the Republican donor invited Thomas on pricey vacations, bought his mother’s house, and provided Thomas’ grandnephew with private school tuition, most of which were not disclosed by the justice.
Topics:nation#clarence-thomas#ethics-reform#harlan-crow#politics#senate-judiciary-committee#supreme-court
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