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Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and the crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court

The problem for the justices is that all the recent ethics stories — and more — are a corrosive drip, drip, drip, eroding public confidence in the court.

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‘Conservative justices? Yeah, in what way?’ Key senator on a supreme court in thrall to special interests

Sheldon Whitehouse says recent court may be undergoing a ‘course correction’ following backlash to its extremist ruling and ethics scandals

The Guardian - US

"Shady and corrupt" ACB real estate deal

"Endless drip" of Supreme Court dealings "underscores the need for reform," group says

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Harlan Crow on collision course with Senate over Clarence Thomas gifts

Finance committee focusing on tax treatment of billionaire mega-donor’s gifts to supreme court justice

The Guardian - US

Why GOP justices are so whiny

The Federalist Society keeps SCOTUS judges in a perpetually whiny state

Salon

Alito’s wrongdoing makes a supreme court ethics overhaul an imperative

Today’s supreme court is extremely powerful, increasingly political and decreasingly trusted. We need reform now

The Guardian - US

Justice Alito accepted Alaska resort vacation from GOP donors, report says

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito accepted a 2008 trip to a luxury fishing lodge in Alaska from two wealthy Republican donors, one of whom repeatedly had interests before the court

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Justice Alito refutes ProPublica report he should have disclosed luxury trip

Justice Samuel Alito says he didn't have to disclose a 2008 luxury trip to Alaska, or the flight on a private jet of hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer who had several cases before the high court.

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Alito defends using "vacant" seat on private jet for Alaska fishing trip

Alito argued he had "followed what I understood to be standard practice" when it came to financial disclosures.

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Senior senators threaten to step up supreme court ethics reform after Samuel Alito revelations – as it happened

Alito reportedly accepted seat on private plane owned by Paul Singer; expert says he should have recused himself from Singer cases before the court

The Guardian - US

Alito took lux trip with GOP billionaire

Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself

Salon

Harlan Crow's stonewalling over gifts to Justice Thomas tests Senate's power

WASHINGTON — Harlan Crow, the conservative billionaire who bestowed luxurious trips and private real estate deals on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his family, is signaling a will to do what auto-industry chieftains and Wall Street titans dared not: defy a Senate subpoena.

Tribune News Service

Harlan Crow funds dark money groups

"Crow's secret political contributions and undisclosed gifts to Thomas can be seen as two sides of the same coin"

Salon

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had a secret real estate billionaire benefactor. We just got a look at the other justices’ holdings

Sonia Sotomayor's more than $1 million apartment in New York City's West Village was disclosed—and John Roberts's house in Ireland.

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Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports

Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

The Independent UK

Justice Jackson reports flowers from Oprah, designer clothing as Thomas delays filing disclosure

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has disclosed that she received a $1,200 congratulatory floral display from Oprah Winfrey and $6,580 in designer clothing for a magazine photo shoot in her first months as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Ukraine says 42,000 at risk from dam flooding

US National Security Council says burst dam has probably caused ‘many deaths’ as fears grow for missing people. Plus, scientists trace the origins of masturbation

The Guardian - US

Mega-donor faces new Senate subpoena threat over gifts to Clarence Thomas

Senator Ron Wyden, chair of finance panel, warns of ‘next steps’ to compel testimony of Harlan Crow about supreme court justice

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The Conversation

Judging the judges: Scandals have the potential to affect the legitimacy of judges – and possibly the federal judiciary, too

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is no stranger to controversy.

Salon

Thomas and Paxton: Oligarchy at work

Clarence Thomas and Ken Paxton's high-end corruption isn't about a few "bad apples." It's how our system works

The Guardian - US

Congress ‘absolutely’ can impose ethics reform on supreme court, senator says

Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse insists legislature has power to make justices follow ethics code but ‘It is not going to be easy’

The Independent UK

Harlan Crow says the Constitution bars investigation into his relationship with Clarence Thomas

The Senate Judiciary Committee asked Mr Crow to provide information regarding his gifts to Mr Thomas

The Guardian - US

Chief justice says US supreme court keeps ‘highest standards’ of conduct

John Roberts speaks on same day lawyers for Harlan Crow decline to cooperate with Senate judiciary committee over gifts scandal

The Guardian - US

Clarence Thomas should resign from the supreme court, for the good of the court

By acting as if Thomas has done nothing wrong, chief justice John Roberts looks pathetic and enabling of unethical behavior

Tribune News Service

Harlan Crow dismisses Senate panel’s questions about gifts to Clarence Thomas

WASHINGTON — A billionaire Republican donor brushed off questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee about his relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas, in a letter Monday that argues the panel did not have the authority to investigate the lavish gifts he provided to the member of the Supreme Court.

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