TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 7, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said today he was not required to disclose trips he and his wife took that were paid for by Republican donor Harlan Crow, the Associated Press reports. Describing Crow and his wife, Kathy, as “among our dearest friends,” Thomas said in a statement that he was advised by colleagues on the court and others in the federal judiciary that “personal hospitality from close personal friends” who do not have business before the court did not need to be reported. Yesterday, ProPublica reported that Thomas accepted luxury trips from Crow nearly every year for more than two decades, including a 2019 trip to Indonesia that could have cost more than $500,000 had Thomas chartered Crow's plane and yacht himself.