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Report: Justice Clarence Thomas Failed to Disclose Gifts From Republican Mega-Donor

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Since his appointment in 1991, Clarence Thomas has consistently been the most Conservative voice in the Supreme Court.
Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted gifts and went on vacation with a Republican mega-donor and failed to disclose them in his financial statements — potentially breaking the law, recent findings have revealed.According to an investigation by ProPublica, Thomas traveled with real-estate developer Harlan Crow on vacations that would have cost the justice six figures if he paid for the trips himself.The report highlights one trip to Indonesia in 2019, in which Thomas and his wife Ginni flew to the country on Crow’s jet and then spent nine days island-hopping on Crow’s 162-foot yacht. Had he chartered the plane and yacht himself, it would have cost him over $500,000.As a justice, Thomas has a salary of $285,000.Thomas has also traveled with Crow to Bohemian Grove, an exclusive all-male retreat in California, Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas, Savannah, Georgia, and New Zealand, and trips nearly every year to Crow’s exclusive resort in the Adirondack region of Upstate New York.

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