The Senate Judiciary Committee in a letter Monday asked billionaire Harlan Crow to provide a full accounting of the free travel and other gifts he has made to Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas or any other justice.
Judiciary Committee Chair Richard J. Durbin and the committee’s 10 other Democrats signed on to the letter asking Crow to provide an itemized list of gifts worth more than $415 that he’s made to Thomas, any other justice or any
, bought his mother’s house, and provided Thomas’ grandnephew with private school tuition, most of which were not disclosed by the justice.Crow has said he never attempted to influence Thomas’ decision-making on the court, and Thomas said he believed he had been following the court’s disclosure rules.
For example, the committee asked the company Topridge Holdings for a full list of guests who stayed at Camp Topridge — Crow’s private lakeside resort — while Thomas was there as a personal guest of Crow’s. All 11 of the committee’s Democrats, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein — who’s been absent for months for health reasons — signed the letters, and none of the committee’s Republicans joined.
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