brand-new reporting this morning on supreme court justice clarence thomas with lavish trips paid for by billionaire friends. this is fro propublica and sheds light on items we have not known before. john? this is a lot. and talking about the people who have given it to him in the first place. david sokol and paul noveli, and others who have were giving him extremely big gifts, and in this pro republica were folks were 38
mother, the defense at t time was the say early in my tenure at the court, i sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and i was advised that this sort of the personal hospitality from the close friends or from the personal friends who did not have business before the court was not reportable. to be sure that propublica did not have business before the court, and those who did said that they never talked about business before the court, but many say it is question of appearance, and scale, john. even in a town in d.c. where people trade favors, this is an awful lot of favors according to propublica worth millions of dollars, and they have not accounted for it yet. and one, i need better friends, and whether this broke rules, and that is why people
justice roberts is to expect accept the responsibility of the court as chest - he has to understand tha clarence thomas s conduct is absolutely unacceptable from a ethical basis. to restore the integrity and reputation of the court, the have to do something an investigation followed by a change in the approach o ethics things are heating up for the supreme court s longes serving justice has democrat called for clarence thomas t be held accountable for hi alleged ethical lapses according to reports fro propublica, thomas has bee shared with several hundreds o thousands of dollars worth o gifts from right win billionaire harlan crow in the form of private jet and jada travel, or real estate sale an other perks. he never disclosed any of it additionally, thomas s wif ginni, collected a salary of nearly $120,000 surreptitiously, funded by crow and justice thomas s disclosur forms for 20 years said she ha
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with us. this week there were a lot o stories and people who reall stood out. so, let s get our mvps of th week joe, yours first okay, my mvps or thre reporters. justin elliott, joshua kapla and alex majeski majurski the three journalist fro propublica who broke the clarence thomas harlan cro story, and continue to stay on it with another one, which i believe came out today, abou harlan crow actually buyin property owned by clarence thomas, which i never having it reported which is unbelievable. it is extraordinary reporting. and i m dying to know wh leaked this. because it has to be someone very close to clarence thomas, who s basically saying, enough is enough. i don t know. it s very such a cool thing to