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Taking all of this from millions of dollars probably worth of gifts from travel and one benefactor who happens to be someone very much involved in republican politics and conservative policy circles. yeah, that s the other piece of it. there s just the ethics violation of not disclosing sums that are vastly greater than $415 but then there s also har hp lin crow who s a real estate magnate who s been invested in organizations very much trying to push the court further and further right. i mean, that s the other piece of this that i think is is alarming there s a painting that is featured in one of harlin crow s residences, i think we have a picture of it, and it s something that hangs in plain sight apparently that features justice thomas sitting around smoking cigars with harlan crow and leonard leo, of course the mocker behind the federalist ....
Supreme court justice clarence thomas a lengthy piece published yesterday by pro pupublica detailed trips thomas took nearly two decades, which were made for by a republican mega donor as the new york times points out, there is no formal code of conduct for the supreme court regarding such trips but thomas never reported any of them in his financial disclosures, which justices are required to do under the ethics and government act of 1978 it says any gift of more than $415 must be reported to avoid even a, quote, appearance of impropriety. according to pro pulica, 2019, the thomasthomases took a priva ....
More than $415, quote anything of value that isn t fully reimbursed he did disclose a gift this republican mega donor had given him. it was a bible that used to belong to frederick douglas and valued at $19,000. so clearly justice thomas knows he s supposed to disclose this sort of thing particularly when it comes to gifts from this guy. because this isn t the first time it s been a scandal mr. crow also gave at least half a million dollars to help justice thomas wife, ginni thomas a group and later evolved into her current group, which reportedly works with groups directly involved in controversial cases before the supreme court. crow also gave more than $100,000 to the yale law clarence thomas portrait fund, which, i don t know, quite a bit of money for a fund that maybe doesn t really need to exist but today propublica made all ....
And governing act of 1978. that act says that any gifts of more than $415 must be reported to avoid a, quote, appearance of impropriety. now, according to propublica in 2019 justice thomas and his wife ginni took crow s private jet to indonesia for a nine-day island door on a super yacht. i don t know what makes it a super yacht, but it s a big yacht. propublica estimates the trip would have cost get this more than $500,000. that wasn t thomas only trip on the super yacht. he also took an extended cruise in new zealand roughly a decade ago. crow said in a statement he has never sought to influence the justice. the supreme court, meanwhile, did not immediately respond to requests for comment thomas did not respond to propublica s questions as well in a statement yesterday, however, senate judiciary ....
A bit more sunny spells around and notice a few showers dotted around in the wake of that weather front, which will be sweeping through wednesday night into thursday. and then friday, the weekend and into next week, it does look as though we pick up these south westerlies that is going to draw in much milder air from the south. the weather will settle down as well. so if we look at the outlook, it does look as though things are going to turn quite a bit milder 14,15,i6 degrees. possibly the high teens across the south of the country. a little bit more changeable further north. bye bye. ....