Deputy Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas arrives for the swearing-in ceremony of Judge Neil Gorsuch as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 10, 2017.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reported on financial disclosure forms that his family raked in thousands of dollars in rental income from a Nebraska real estate company that had been closed since 2006. , according to a Supreme Court report. Washington Post Sunday.
Thomas has been reporting income from a company called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership for the past two decades, but in 2006 the company was closed and replaced by a new company, the report said. know. The new company, Ginger Holdings, LLC, is similarly named, but there is no mention of it in Thomas’ filings.
In recent years, Thomas is said to have continued to disclose $50,000 to $100,000 in annual income from his former company.
Even if the error can be reduced to a paperwork error, it marks the latest question around the financial practices of justice following an investigation. recent ProPublica report revealing that Thomas had accepted secret luxury trips from major Republican donor Harlan Crow for more than two decades was a clear violation of financial disclosure laws.
Thomas, the 74-year-old conservative deputy justice who has served on the nation’s highest court since 1991, failed to report trips in his financial disclosures as required by law, the chamber Non-profit news reporting. ProPublica later reported that Crow Buy an asset from Thomas too, which justice did not reveal.
The investigation gives more fuel to Thomas’ critics who say he refuses Reuse himself from cases involving matters related to his wife’s political work in conservative circles – including her participation in plans to overturn the 2020 election – causing a conflict of interest.
Senate Judiciary Committee Democratic Majority on Monday call for investigation into Thomas’s behavior. Chief Justice John Roberts should “immediately open” an investigation into “how such conduct may have taken place” under him, read a letter from Illinois Chairman Dick Durbin and 10 other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The committee announced in the letter that it would hold a hearing “in the coming days” on “the need to restore confidence in the Supreme Court’s ethical standards.”
— Kevin Breuninger of CNBC contributed to this report.
