Clarence Thomas’s 2011 Ethics Complaints Are Under Senate Scrutiny
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Clarence Thomas and Virginia Thomas.
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The federal judiciary’s handling of ethics complaints over Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s failure to disclose his wife’s income more than a decade ago is getting fresh scrutiny in the Senate.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat who serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the US court system for information about how its governance body responded to the 2011 revelations. A committee of judges concluded that Thomas’s lapses in reporting Ginni Thomas’s income wasn’t “willful” misconduct, but details about that review and the panel’s reasoning weren’t shared with the public.