In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, Sen. Dick Durbin writes that the Senate Judiciary Committee will soon hold a hearing on the Supreme Court’s ethical standards in the wake of a news report about lavish trips Justice Clarence Thomas took from a friend — a major GOP donor — but did not disclose.
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In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, Sen. Dick Durbin writes that the Senate Judiciary Committee will soon hold a hearing on the Supreme Court’s ethical standards in the wake of a news report about lavish trips Justice Clarence Thomas took from a friend — a major GOP donor — but did not disclose.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to hold a hearing about “the need to restore confidence in the Supreme Court’s ethical standards,” Sen. Dick Durbin, chair of the panel, wrote in a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, following revelations in ProPublica last week that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury vacations from a major GOP donor but didn’t disclose them.
In his letter, Durbin also urged Roberts to “immediately open … an investigation and take all needed action to prevent further misconduct” on the court.
“And if the Court does not resolve this issue on its own, the Committee will consider legislation to resolve it,” the letter says.
ProPublica reported last Thursday about the trips…