WASHINGTON — Utah Sen. Mike Lee has repeatedly taken to Twitter to defend Clarence Thomas, calling the embattled U.S. Supreme Court justice a “hero who did nothing wrong” over the weekend.
Thomas has been at the center of a national discussion around Supreme Court ethics, after ProPublica reported that the justice failed to report receiving lavish trips from Texas billionaire Harlan Crow — a conservative megadonor — for more than two decades.
Legal experts told ProPublica Thomas should have disclosed the trips, under a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts they receive. In a statement, Crow said he’d extended “hospitality” to Thomas and his wife, but the justice never asked for it and it was “no different from the hospitality we have extended to our many other dear friends.”
Crow called the trips “gatherings of friends,” and said he’s “unaware of any of our friends ever lobbying or seeking to influence Justice Thomas on any case.”
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Written by BRIDGER BEAL-CVETKO, KSL.com.