The revelation of tuition payments made by Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow is the latest example of Crow’s generosity to Thomas and his family that has raised questions about Thomas’ ethics and disclosure requirements.
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Billionaire paid tuition for Justice Clarence Thomas’s grandnephew, report says
Harlan Crow, a prominent Republican donor who also treated the justice to lavish vacations, paid the private boarding tuition for Thomas’s grandnephew.
Senate hearing on Supreme Court ethics rules runs into Republican opposition
Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearing on Supreme Court ethics amid questions on gifts from Harland Crow to Justice Clarence Thomas.
Justice Alito thinks he knows who Dobbs leaker is – and says it’s not a conservative
The leak of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization draft opinion rocked the Supreme Court and its tradition of secrecy involving unreleased opinions.
Gordon Weil: Justice Alito attacks Biden, fellow jurists
In dissenting from the Supreme Court’s procedural order suspending lower court rulings on an anti-abortion drug, Justice Samuel Alito issued an historic tirade. Alito blasted the Biden Administration and fellow justices, while revealing both the ultimate outcome of the case and his extreme judicial partisanship. The case began when a U.S. District Court judge in […]
Sen. King proposes ethics rules for U.S. Supreme Court justices
Maine’s independent senator teams up with an Alaska Republican on a bill to require the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a code of conduct and investigate complaints, while Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree has co-sponsored similar bills in the U.S. House.
Chief Justice Roberts declines Senate request to testify on court ethics
Roberts’ refusal to testify is the latest hitch for Democrats on the Judiciary panel.
Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill for now
The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone.
Gordon L. Weil: Congress should rein in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court rules the federal government. When it comes to judges, the checks and balances that are supposed to restrain each of the three branches of the government don’t work. The Supreme Court composed of nine, unelected justices holding their positions for life have assumed virtually unlimited power. When they seek Senate confirmation, judicial […]
Supreme Court delays decision on abortion pill, extends access until Friday
The justices are considering whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone to take effect as a legal challenge to the medication’s FDA approval continues.
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