Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday formally disclosed a 2019 trip to Indonesia paid for by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, a vacation that was at the center of the controversy over his travel.
The trip to Bali was the focus of the original report in ProPublica last year that triggered months of headlines about posh travel accepted by justices. Though the news organization’s reporting raised awareness of the trip, Thomas did not formally disclose it on his previous reports.
Thomas’ annual financial disclosure, which would typically disclose travel, gifts and outside income for the prior year, included a note at the end listing Harlan and Kathy Crow as the source of a trip to Bali in July 2019. The couple paid for “food and lodging,” according to the report. Thomas did not place a value on the travel.
Lifetime appointments with zero requirements for accountability is just not a good idea. The founders must have been drunk the day they decided that.
There’s accountability. Judges can be impeached by Congress, in a very similar means to presidents.
However, the GOP has a real tendency to party before country, and they certainly wouldn’t let him get impeached while the president has a D next to his name. And if there wasn’t a D next to his name, all the better, just “ask” him to retire, no need to go through a trial and let everyone see just how slimy they really are.
The airplane wasn’t even invented yet, hard to understand someone buying you a vacation 9500 miles away and not needing to quit your job and be gone for 6 months