Supreme Court Justices disclose finances

now to Washington and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas publicly acknowledging for the first time those luxury vacations he took that were paid for by a republican billionaire ABC's Perry russum is at the Supreme Court with the latest Perry good morning what good morning to you Thomas has said he views these trips as personal Hospitality from a friend who does not have business in front of the court and he did not believe he had to disclose them at the center of this are two trips from the summer of 2019 the first was to Bali in Indonesia and the second was to an elite private club CL only for men in California both of these trips were free for Justice Clarence Thomas and they were paid for by his billionaire friend Harland Crow who is also a GOP Mega donor in Thomas's financial report released yesterday it reads those trips were inadvertently omitted from previous reports but there are still questions about how he got to these places and if he used Crow superyacht there's a history of travel and business between Thomas and Crow including Thomas flying on Crow's private jet five times in 2022 and Pro public of reports in 2014 Crow bought three properties in Georgia from Thomas including one his mother still lived in and all of this is happening as we were waiting on key decisions from the high court behind me that directly affect the Republican party we have Trump's immunity obstruction charges for Trump tied to January 6 as well as two cases on abortion rights Gio so many cases to watch Perry thank you so much

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Length: 1min 22sec (82 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 08 2024