Mark Paoletta, a friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says Thomas was in compliance with court ethics laws when he didn't disclose trips he took with his friend and billionaire GOP donor Harlan Crow.
The Supreme Court this week received its highest disapproval rating in a Quinnipiac University survey since 2004, the year Quinnipiac began polling voters about the high court.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. says the hardest decision he has made in his nearly two decades on the Supreme Court was putting up a fence around the court last year amid protests over the justices rolling back national abortion rights.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin vowed to get information from GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow over his gifts and relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas after a law firm representing Mr. Crow rejected the committee's inquiries about his businesses.