Global Courant 2023-04-11 05:08:30
Senate Democrats are demanding that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts open an investigation into Judge Clarence Thomas for what they denounce as his “misconduct,” described in a ProPublica report released last week.
The liberal outlet’s report accused Thomas of receiving inappropriate lavish vacations from Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow, which reportedly included traveling around the world on the latter’s yacht and private jet without disclosing them.
In a letter Monday, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., along with every Democrat on the committee, cited the report as evidence that Thomas failed to uphold ethical standards for a Supreme Court justice. .
Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. (Associated Press)
“This is just grasping at straws by the left desperate to take down Justice Thomas because he now has a working original majority in court,” Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy and The Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, Fox News Digital told Fox News after the report’s release.
“This is political. Simple and straightforward,” he added.