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Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, in December 1993.Marcy Nighswander/AP
Clarence Thomas’s financial dealings have come under scrutiny after a series of reports.
In a 2001 speech, Thomas said serving the Supreme Court was not worth the money.
A group of Democratic legislators don’t want to give the court any money until a code of ethics is passed.
Judge Clarence Thomas – who accepted lavish vacations and other financial benefits from GOP mega donor Harlan Crow years – said in a 2001 speech that serving the Supreme Court was not worth what it paid.
“The job isn’t worth doing for what they pay,” Thomas said in a speech in 2001, The New York Post reported at the time. “The work is not worth it for the grief. But it is worth it for the principle.”
Thomas spoke to the Savannah, Georgia Bar Association, according to the Post. In the speech, resurfaced this week by the writer of The Nation Jeez Lord, Thomas discussed his attempts to gain custody of his then 10-year-old second cousin. The Post reported that Thomas cried during the speech and thanked his lawyer who worked on the custody battle.
In 2001, the salary for an associate Supreme Court justice was $178,300, while the Chief Justice earned $186,300. As of 2023, the salary for an associate justice is $285,400, while the chief justice earns $298,500.
ProPublica reported this week that in 2008, Thomas sent his second cousin, the one referenced in the speech, to Hidden Lake Academy, a residential program in Georgia, and that Crow covered the $6,000 a month bill. The outlet previously reported that Crow had paid for Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, to take extravagant vacations, and that Thomas has sold his childhood home to Crow but did not disclose the sale.
A group of 15 Democratic legislators want now $10 million withholding of Supreme Court funding to court adopts a deontological codereported The Hill.
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