Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Stepping up efforts to hold U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accountable for alleged ethics violations, two Democratic senators on Tuesday announced they'd requested that the Biden administration appoint a special counsel to investigate the right-wing judge. Sen.
The justice has reportedly received free private jet travel, lodging, tuition for his grandnephew, a country club membership, and free rent for his mother, among other gifts, 'all of which Justice Thomas failed to disclose' in violation of the Ethics in Government Act. 'Justice Thomas has claimed that some omissions were 'inadvertent,' and he has amended some past reports accordingly,' wrote Whitehouse and Wyden.
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