Clarence Thomas has reportedly gone on trips for decades funded by billionaire GOP donor Harlan Crow.
Chief Justice John Roberts should "immediately open" a probe into "how such conduct could take place" on his watch,from Chairman Dick Durbin of Illinois and the Senate Judiciary panel's 10 other Democratic members.
The Democrats also warned they would "consider legislation to resolve" the issue if the high court does not do so on its own.early in his tenure as a Supreme Court justice that "this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable."
The 74-year-old justice, who has served on the nation's highest court since 1991, was responding to ProPublica's report last Thursday that he had accepted expensive trips from wealthy GOP donor Harlan Crow for more than two decades.
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