Senate Democrats Ask Chief Justice to Probe Thomas’ Luxury Trips

All Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have called on Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate undisclosed luxury trips that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted from a wealthy Republican donor.

The panel, the Democrats said in a Monday letter, would soon hold a hearing on the court’s ethical standards.

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, left, talks to Chief Justice John Roberts during the formal group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg

The committee “has a role to play in ensuring that the nation’s highest court does not have the federal judiciary’s lowest ethical standards,” the senators, led by Chairman Dick Durbin, said in the letter.

“You have a role to play as well, both in investigating how such conduct ...