Justice Thomas Responds To Intense Gifted Travel Criticism: He Is Just A Friend.
“Thomas’ statement said he considers Crow and his wife “among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them.”
“Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable,” Thomas said. “I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines.””
Justice Thomas and his luxury reporting snafu are the latest in a long list of issues that chief Justice Roberts must content with as the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court. The Court is still reeling from the leaked abortion ruling last year and the leaker of said document was never caught even after an extensive investigation. Furthermore, Justice Thomas’ wife is engaged in far right politics which for some offers an air of partiality and political bent to the public perception of the Court. These vexing problems offer no easy fixes and are caught in the vacuum of a deepening political polarization in the nation as a whole.
