Senators call for probe of Thomas amid report of real estate deals with GOP donor

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Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after ProPublica revealed Thursday that he had failed to report real estate deals made with Harlan Crow, a Dallas business executive and influential Republican donor to causes related to the law and judiciary.

According to ProPublica, Crow purchased three properties in Savannah, Ga., from Thomas in 2014, including the single-story house where Thomas’s mother was living and two vacant lots nearby. Thomas did not disclose the $133,363 real estate transaction on his financial disclosure forms, as federal law would have required. Crow told the outlet that he wanted to preserve the first property as a museum dedicated to Thomas in the future and said he had spent tens of thousands of dollars on improvements to the house “to preserve its long-term viability.”

Thomas has not publicly commented on the latest ProPublica report and neither Thomas nor representatives for the Supreme Court responded to requests for comment Thursday.

The report came on the heels of another ProPublica investigation that revealed that Thomas had accepted trips around the globe from Crow for more than two decades, including travel on a superyacht and private jet, without disclosing them. Thomas said last week that he had been advised “by colleagues and others in the judiciary” that those luxury trips counted as “personal hospitality” that did not have to be disclosed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/14/clarence-thomas-gifts-property-gop-donor-supreme-court/

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1. I expect nothing less.

[DFW]

2. This is all well and good to get it out there in the public eye

But at the end of the day, Clarence Thomas will say "yeah? so what?" and that will be as far as it goes. If Roberts does nothing to urge Thomas's resignation (does anyone here truly believe otherwise?), then it remains a fact that while the Supreme Court Building in Washington is adorned with the slogan "Equal Justice Under Law," Republican members of the Court get better-than-equal justice because they consider themselves ABOVE the law.

The shameful comparison of this situation, where the evidence against Thomas is not even disputed, with 33 Democratic Senators disgustingly urging their colleague Al Franken to resign, is positively sickening. "Equal Justice," my ass.