Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reported three 2022 trips on the private jet of a Texas billionaire in a financial disclosure form released Thursday, and for the first time detailed the businessman’s purchase of three properties from the justice’s family years earlier.
In his required annual financial report, Thomas said he opted to fly on the private plane of his friend and benefactor, Harlan Crow, for one of the trips on the advice of his security detail. The justices faced heightened security risks, Thomas noted, after the May, 2022 leak of the court’s majority opinion to eliminate the nationwide right to abortion and overturn Roe v. Wade.
Thomas also acknowledged prior mistakes and omissions in past reports, involving bank accounts, a life insurance policy and the name of his wife’s real estate company.
I’m just waiting for someone to cite Clarence Thomas when dealing with the IRS. I mean a Supreme Court justice failed to disclose similar for many years without any apparent violations, so why should Joe Dirt have any consequences?
Appeal it right up to the same court and let’s see them justify throwing out the entire basis of consequences for failing to disclose things to the government properly.