Democrats have targeted conservative Supreme Court Clarence Thomas over recent ethical concerns but have remained silent on potential liberal justices' issues in the past.
Fox News contributors Ben Domenech and Leslie Marshall discuss media coverage of ethical concerns over Justice Clarence Thomas' financial dealings and react after prosecutors dropped charges in Alec Baldwin's Rust shooting. over ethical matters in recent weeks but have overlooked issues involving liberal justices in the past.
Democrats have targeted Justice Clarence Thomas following reports he accepted gifts from a Republican mega-donor and failed to report them.But Democrats remained quiet throughout the years when reports surfaced on Supreme Court justices concerning their potential conflicts, including proximity to , omitting trips and reimbursements, failing to recuse themselves from cases involving companies in which they had financial stakes and cases concerning issues they had worked on in the past.
Gov. Pritzker has attempted to influence judicial elections. In 2021, he banned out-of-state money for judicial campaigns ahead of supreme court races in his state. He later dipped into a trust and skirted campaign finance limits he had signed into law, the Chicago Tribune reported. And months ago, he funneled Gov. Pritzker's office did not respond to a request for comment.
Every year, Supreme Court justices are required to submit disclosure forms that detail their income sources. Between 2004 and 2018, Justices reported 1,306 trips that others had reimbursed, according to the OpenSecrets report. Justice Sotomayor secured lodging for a group of friends at a boutique hotel in Rhode Island for her commencement speech in 2016. According to the ABA Journal, she failed to include reimbursements from the university in her disclosure forms for several years.
Former Justice Stephen Breyer maintained close ties to the Pritzker family, who have generously showered Democratic campaigns and committees with cash. The office of Sen. Whitehouse, who called for a DOJ investigation into Thomas, did not respond to a request for comment.Republican mega-donor
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