.JudiciaryDems chair SenatorDurbin invited SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts to testify next month before the panel over ethics reform inquiries at the nation's highest court, marking an unusual request amid concerns over Justice Clarence Thomas.
Durbin's invitation comes amid a series of revelations surrounding Thomas going on luxury vacations and making real estate transactions with wealthy GOP donor Harlan Crow. For years, Thomas also did not report his trips with Crow.“Your last significant discussion of how Supreme Court Justices address ethical issues was presented in your 2011 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary," Durbin wrote in a letter to Roberts regarding the invitation.
Durbin added that the"time has come" for an additional public conversation on ways to restore public confidence in the court's ethical standards."I invite you to join it, and I look forward to your response," he wrote. Supreme Court justices have testified in the past before congressional appropriations committees regarding the budget for the court, though there isn't clear precedent for asking a justice to testify on ethical standards on behalf of their colleagues.
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