According to a Washington Post Sunday report, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas disclosed on financial disclosure forms that his family received rental income of thousands of dollars from a Nebraska real estate company that has been closed since 2006.
Over the past 20 years, Thomas has disclosed earnings from a company called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership; however, the report states that in 2006, this company was shut down and was replaced by a new one.
Although the new company, Ginger Holdings, LLC, has a similar name, Thomas’ records make no note of it.
Thomas reportedly disclosed between $50,000 and $100,000 from the previous company each year in recent years.
Even if the inaccuracy can be explained by a simple paperwork mistake, it raises yet another concern about the justice’s financial practices after a recent ProPublica investigation revealed Thomas accepted lavish trips for more than 20 years in secret from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, ostensibly in violation of a financial disclosure law.
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According to the nonprofit newsroom, Thomas, a conservative associate judge who has been a United States Supreme Court member since 1991, did not disclose the trips on his financial reports as required by law. Later, according to ProPublica, Crow also purchased real estate from Thomas, which the justice chose not to mention.
A tweet from Occupy Democrats’ official Twitter account:
HUGE BREAKING NEWS: For 20 years, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been breaking the law by accepting travel on private jets and visits to private resorts via superyacht from a Republican megadonor — and failed to report any of it on his financial disclosures, raising…
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) April 6, 2023
The inquiry gives Thomas’ detractors more ammunition to argue that he should disqualify himself from cases involving his wife’s political activities in conservative circles, including her participation in plots to rig the 2020 election.
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic majority on Monday called for an investigation into Thomas’ behavior. Chief Justice John Roberts should “immediately open” a probe into “how such conduct could take place” on his watch, read a letter from Chairman Dick Durbin of Illinois and the Senate Judiciary panel’s 10 other Democratic members.
The committee announced in the letter that it would hold a hearing “in the coming days” on “the need to restore confidence in the Supreme Court’s ethical standards.”
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