Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin invited Chief Justice John Roberts to testify on Supreme Court ethics rules amid controversy surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas' vacations.
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Thomas released a rare statement following the report saying that he has consistently followed ethics guidelines.United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, left, and Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, right, pose for their official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on Oct. 7, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
"As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them. Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable," Thomas said.
On June 30, 2022, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took the oaths of office to become the 104th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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