The committee will hold a hearing in the coming days on the matter, Chairman Richard Durbin and the panel’s 10 other Democratic members wrote in a letter to U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Monday urged U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate luxury trips taken by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas that were paid for by a Republican donor – conduct they deemed inconsistent with ethical standards for “any person in a position of public trust.”
“And if the court does not resolve this issue on its own, the committee will consider legislation to resolve it,” they told Roberts. “But you do not need to wait for Congress to act to undertake your own investigation into the reported conduct and to ensure that it cannot happen again. We urge you to do so.”
Thomas defended the trips on Friday, saying he had been advised he was not required to report that type of “personal hospitality.” But the conservative justice said he would abide by new, tighter rules that recently took effect. The senators in the letter told Roberts that “you have a role to play as well, both in investigating how such conduct could take place at the court under your watch, and in ensuring that such conduct does not happen again.”
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