in 2002 it was a $500 honorary membership to a club, $1,200 tires and a $5,000 education gift for mark martin. we re going to come back to that last one in just a second. in 2013 it was a $500 stained glass medallion from his alma mater at yale law school, in 2016 it was a bust of frederick douglas valued at $1600. those were some of the gifts he listed in public disclosure filings over the years while keeping with disclosure laws. while some of those reportedimes could raise items on their own, they re not even the most interesting part of thomas disclosure form. for that you have to look at what he s missing from those forms. in the last month propublica has reported on a litany of items for trips and payments on real estate that justice clarence
seeing the justices as politicians in robes and now, after the revelation about justice thomas as corrupt politicians in robes. they want an investigation, they want the truth. it should be done by the department of justice because there are allegations of criminal wrongdoing here violations by justice thomas of the disclosure laws incomplete, inaccurate reporting and nondisclosure and in the lack of an investigation, we have a role to play in congress. the judges have a role to play, too, in protecting themselves. what chief justice roberts has done refusing to come before this committee is judicial malpractice. it seems like he s putting this in a couple of different buckets. one is what we ve been talking about, the lack of an ethics
you, dahlia. i m not with all respect, senator, going to get involved in politics. if this body wishes to pass legislation, that s a political question for this body there s ample room for this body to pass disclosure laws for dark money or anything else it wishes to that can be tested in the courts senator, with all respect, the ball is in your court. do you really think that a supreme court that decided citizens united doesn t get involved in politics senator, i think every justice on the supreme court of the united states is a remarkable person trying their level best to apply the law faithfully i m just not they were involved in politics, they changed the entire political environment, the entire political ecosystem with one decision. you must recognize that.
chairman of the house oversight committee. republican congressman james comer of kentucky so as chairman of the house oversight committee, you have been investigating members of joe biden s family and their business with the bidens. have you found anything illegal while he was actually in office? we found a lot. that s certainly unethical. we found a lot that should be illegal. the line is blurry as to what is legal and not legal with respect to family. peddling. i think people in both parties have argued for many years that family members of both republicans and democrats, especially family, members of president have benefited from our adversaries around the world. i don t think that anyone would dispute the fact that we need to increase the ethics laws and the disclosure laws, but one thing that we re concerned about the president joe biden has said he didn t have any knowledge of his family s, uh business dealings
our adversaries around the world. i don t think that anyone would dispute the fact that we need to increase the ethics laws and the disclosure laws for one thing that we re concerned about. the president joe biden has said he didn t have any knowledge of his family s, uh business dealings or whatever you wanna call them, but we find more and more evidence every day that he was knowledgeable of what his family was doing and that we believe that, with with perspective, excessive amounts of money that the families receiving they were certainly more than likely getting something in return from joe barton. specifically, have you seen in terms of that dynamic happening that you say and again was any of this happening this evidence that you purport to have happening while biden was actually in office because in this announcement last month, you will claim that at least three biden, family members and two associates receive payments that originated from china, but he said it was 2017 that was