Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas released his annual financial disclosure form Thursday with a response “in detail” to reports of luxury trips, private jet flights and real estate transactions with Texas billionaire Harlan Crow (The New York Times). Thomas detailed two flights to Dallas and one to Keene Mill, New York, on Crow’s jet, and on one occasion said he had been advised to avoid commercial air travel after a draft of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last year was leaked to Politico. Thomas, of course, voted with the majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. 

And so, the debate over whether Congress should impose an ethics standard over SCOTUS, and whether justices should be subject to limited terms or an age limit rages on. 

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