The Supreme Court Still Has an Ethics Problem
It has been a year since the Clarence Thomas-Harlan Crow exposé, yet the nine justices remain the most powerful, least accountable part of our government.
What are they up to?
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It’s been a year since ProPublica published its first groundbreaking investigative piece on the pricey gifts, yacht trips and private jet travel that conservative megadonors have lavished on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Over that time, Americans have become more attuned to the off-the-bench lives of Thomas and the eight others on which the Constitution bestows enormous, all-but-unreviewable power for life. That’s a good thing.
But to its and our detriment, the court has yet to offer a response that measures up to the scandal.