Clarence Thomas Luxury Gift Report Prompts Ethics Code Talk (1)

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin said his panel “will act” following a report revealing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted luxury trips from a Dallas-based GOP donor.

The Illinois Democrat said the ProPublica report, which detailed gifts of trips on private yachts and jets and luxury accommodations over two decades, shows the high court needs a statutory code of conduct.

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas during the formal group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg

Thomas never reported the gifts, which Durbin said in a statement is “inconsistent with the ethical standards the American people expect of any public servant, let alone a Justice on the Supreme Court.”

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