![]() ![]() Nevertheless, he says, it is his “intent” to follow updated guidelines that do not allow for this sort of thing in the future. ![]() Specifically, Thomas said in a statement that he asked around when he first joined the court and was told that “personal hospitality from close personal friends”-even eye-popping levels of “hospitality,” from “friends” who have spent their lives influencing politics and policy-was totally permissible and that he definitely didn’t need to officially report it. ![]() And while the long-time justice rarely feels the need to say anything about anything, on Friday he felt compelled to explain himself. Not surprisingly, Thomas, who is arguably the most corrupt justice in Supreme Court history, did not feel the need to disclose any of this. Among other things, those gifts have included: island-hopping on Crow’s superyacht trips to Crow’s East Texas ranch and an exclusive retreat in California an annual vacation at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks (which, for some reason, features “a lifesize replica of the Harry Potter character Hagrid’s hut”) jaunts on Crow’s private jet and, for good measure, a $500,000 donation to Ginni Thomas’s right-wing lobbying firm. On Thursday, ProPublica reported that for over the past two decades, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has accepted comically lavish gifts from billionaire Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow. ![]()
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