the judicial conference of the united states, which operates as the policymaking body for federal courts. today s committee hearing highlighted clarence thomas s decade-long pattern of submitting false and inadequate financial disclosure forms, including the failure to disclose his wife s income as the forms require. believe it or not, we have been in nearly this exact situation before. back in 2011 the nonprofit group colin cause uncovered that justice thomas had not reported years of his wife s income paid by a right-wing dark money group. the new york times reported that justice thomas also had not disclosed gifts of free private jet handicapped travel from the same right-wing billionaire. the same kinds of undisclosed gifts from the same kind of right-wing billionaire that
In a statement released by the Supreme Court, the justice said he had followed past guidance from others at the court and believed he was not required to report the trips.
confirmation as attorney general mr. garland was a judge of the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit and appointed to that position in 1997 served as chief judge of the circuit from 2013 to 2020 and served as chair of the executive xity of the judicial conference of the united states from 2017 to 2020. in 2016 president obama nominated him for the business of associate justice of the united states supreme court. before that he spent a substantial part of his professional life at the department of justice. including a special assistant to the attorney general assistant united states attorney and principal associate deputy attorney general. earlier in his career he was in private practice and also taught at harvard law school. both his undergraduate and law degrees from harvard. he clerked from the united