Dallasite buys Supreme Court of the United States per a ProPublica article late last week alleging Harlan Crow paid for lavish trips for Clarence Thomas.
Per the ProPublica report, Justice Thomas has accepted luxury trips consistently for twenty years from billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow.
Thomas has not disclosed those trips which breaks a long-standing norms for judicial behavior.
The Crow-Thomas trips included island-hopping through Indonesia on a superyacht and annual summer stays at a private Adirondack resort.
ProPublica says the extent and frequency of gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in the history of the Court.
This brings some to question how a Dallasite buys Supreme Court access.
The ethical lapses make Dallas’ ‘normal’ ethics issues almost boring.
Justice Thomas issued a brief statement.
“Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable,” Thomas said.
His statement continues, “I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines.”
“Justice Thomas likes to focus on the language of authoritative texts, and that’s not what he’s doing,” said Kathleen Clark. Clark is a legal ethics expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dallasite Buys Supreme Court: Just One Issue?
Beyond the questions related to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are Crow’s own decisions on interior decorating.
Crow’s garden includes statues that appear to celebrate world dictators.
Statues in what some call the “Garden of Evil” are Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito.
Additionally, Crow has two paintings by Adolf Hitler and a signed copy of Mein Kampf. This is in addition to other assorted Nazi paraphanelia.
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