Democrats have also called for ethics reform. That is a nonstarter, as Republicans hold the House, where impeachment would begin, and will protect the 6-3 conservative majority which has handed down major rulings including the removal of abortion rights. Supreme court justices are notionally subject to ethics rules for federal justices but in practice govern themselves.ĭemocrats have called for Thomas to be impeached and removed.
Critics say this shows he knew he should have declared gifts from Crow. In the case of the school fees, Thomas did declare a gift from another donor for the same purpose. He has not commented on reports that Crow bought from him property in which his mother still lives rent-free that Crow paid for the private schooling for Thomas’s great-nephew, who the justice said he was raising like a son and that the conservative activist Leonard Leo secretively arranged payment of tens of thousand dollars to Ginni Thomas, the justice’s rightwing activist wife. Thomas has said he did not declare gifts from Crow including luxury travel and resort stays because he was advised not to do so, but will do so in future. He added: “Your conduct has likely violated civil and criminal laws and has created the impression that access to and influence over supreme court justices is for sale.”
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“For the sake of the court and for the sake of our democracy which depends on a judiciary that the public accepts as legitimate and free from corruption, we urge you to resign.” In an open letter to Thomas, Noah Bookbinder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or Crew, cited a “grave crisis of institutional legitimacy currently facing the supreme court”.
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