Thomas 2011 Ethics Complaints Not ‘Properly’ Handled, Judge Says

A federal judge who raised concerns more than a decade ago about how ethics complaints against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas were handled testified Wednesday in the US Senate, sharing new details about the events, including Chief Justice John Roberts’s role.

US District Judge Mark Wolf of Massachusetts was a member of the Judicial Conference – the US court system’s leadership body – in 2011 and 2012, when Democrats in Congress and advocacy groups accused Thomas of violating financial reporting rules.

On Wednesday, Wolf described to a Senate subcommittee concerns he had raised that the judiciary panel that enforces financial ...