{"id":2017934,"date":"2023-08-31T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clarence-thomass-2022-financial-disclosure-released-after-months-of-ethics-pressure\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T10:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T14:59:03","slug":"clarence-thomass-2022-financial-disclosure-released-after-months-of-ethics-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clarence-thomass-2022-financial-disclosure-released-after-months-of-ethics-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarence Thomas&#8217;s 2022 financial disclosure finally unveiled amidst mounting &#8216;ethics&#8217; pressure."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclarence-thomass-2022-financial-disclosure-released-after-months-of-ethics-pressure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2017934&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas&#8217;s 2022 Financial Disclosure Revealed Amidst Accusations<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blumenthal-and-wife-have-six-figure-investment-in-chinese-government-linked-retail-center\/\" title=\"Blumenthal and Wife Have Six-Figure Investment in Chinese Government-Linked Retail Center\">annual financial disclosure<\/a> of Supreme Court Justice \u2064Clarence Thomas for 2022 has been released, adding fuel to the ongoing accusations of \u2064ethics violations against\u200c conservative justices. The document, obtained by the Washington Examiner, spans nine pages and provides a comprehensive overview of\u200c Thomas&#8217;s and\u2064 his \u200dwife Virginia &#8220;Ginni&#8221; Thomas&#8217;s \u200dfinances.\u200c This disclosure comes\u200b at\u200d a time when Justice \u2062Thomas has faced criticism from\u2064 left-wing advocacy\u2063 groups, particularly regarding his\u200b relationship \u2062with billionaire Harlan\u2064 Crow based in Texas.<\/p>\n<h3>Liberal Groups \u2063Accuse Thomas of Ethics Violations<\/h3>\n<p>Attorney Elliot S. Berke, who assisted Thomas in filing the disclosure, emphasized the justice&#8217;s commitment to transparency and adherence to \u200cthe law throughout his 44 years of public\u200c service. Berke acknowledged the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdog-accuses-three-house-democrats-of-ethics-violations\/\" title=\"Watchdog Accuses Three House Democrats of Ethics Violations\">ethics complaints filed<\/a> against Thomas by left-wing\u200c organizations \u2062with undisclosed supporters\u200b who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/his-audience-isnt-crying-about-it-young-turks-ana-kasparian-defends-debate-with-ben-shapiro\/\" title=\"\u2018His Audience Isn\u2019t Crying About It\u2019: Young Turks\u2019 Ana Kasparian Defends Debate With Ben Shapiro\">hold opposing views<\/a> to the\u200d justice&#8217;s judicial philosophy. He expressed\u200d readiness to address any remaining issues or questions with the Judicial Conference \u2063and\u200b its staff, emphasizing that the financial disclosure\u2062 process \u200dshould \u200bnot be weaponized\u2064 against a justice \u200cdue to \u2062disagreements in thinking, writing, or voting.<\/p>\n<p>Left-leaning activist hubs, Democratic politicians,\u200d and organizations like \u2062Fix the Court, along with Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Dick \u200cDurbin (IL), have been leading a coordinated campaign against Thomas, accusing him of persistent failure to disclose gifts, \u200bincluding those from Crow.\u200b Conservatives,\u200c however, have\u200c countered these allegations by highlighting that such disclosures were not required \u2062under the ethics \u200crules.<\/p>\n<h3>Thomas and Alito Face Scrutiny<\/h3>\n<p>While the \u2064other\u2063 justices were able to submit their financial disclosure forms by the deadline,\u2062 Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito were granted \u2062an extension by the administrative office. The pair\u200d has faced repeated scrutiny, particularly from \u200dProPublica. The outlet \u2063published a report suggesting that Thomas should have \u200ddisclosed his past \u200ctrips with Crow, prompting the justice to \u2064respond\u2064 with a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled &#8220;ProPublica Misleads Its\u2063 Readers.&#8221; \u200bAlito also faced allegations of ethical impropriety related \u2064to \u2063a fishing \u200dtrip in\u200c Alaska.<\/p>\n<h3>Details of Thomas&#8217;s Financial Disclosure<\/h3>\n<p>The 2022 filing \u2062reveals \u200bThomas&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clarence-thomass-2022-financial-disclosure-released-after-months-of-ethics-pressure\/\" title=\"Clarence Thomas's 2022 financial disclosure finally unveiled amidst mounting 'ethics' pressure.\">honorary board member role<\/a> for \u2063the Horatio Alger Association and $12,000 in income from teaching a course at George Mason&#8217;s Antonin Scalia \u2063Law School. The \u2063disclosure also\u2062 includes three separate reimbursements related \u200bto Thomas&#8217;s involvement with Crow. Crow covered the expenses for Thomas&#8217;s canceled trip to the\u2062 American Enterprise Institute&#8217;s Conference \u2064at Old Parkland, as well as his\u2064 transportation and meals during a vacation \u200bat Crow&#8217;s Camp Topridge in Keese\u200b Mill, New York.\u200b Additionally, the Hatch Center paid for Thomas&#8217;s transportation, meals, and lodging during \u2064a speech in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas inadvertently failed to report the sale of real estate in Savannah, Georgia, to Crow in 2014. However, Thomas&#8217;s attorney clarified that the transactions were arms-length\u2063 and fair market value. The\u200d purchase from Crow resulted \u200cin \u2062a capital loss for Thomas.<\/p>\n<h3>Response to Accusations<\/h3>\n<p>Thomas&#8217;s attorney explained that the changes in reporting requirements prompted the\u2063 inclusion \u2063of the reported travel on \u2064the latest disclosure form. He defended Thomas&#8217;s\u2064 previous nondisclosure, stating that \u200bthe previous\u200c guidance \u2063did not call\u200d for reporting travel with Crow from previous years. Thomas had been advised by Senior Judge Raymond \u200bRandolph, the former chairman of the Judicial Codes\u200c of Conduct Committee, that such travel did \u2064not \u2063need to be reported.<\/p>\n<p>In response to \u2064the ProPublica reporting, Thomas released \u2062a rare\u2062 statement in April, \u200dnoting that he was advised at the time\u200c that he did not need to report his travel with Crow. In 2011, the Judicial Conference\u2062 addressed\u200c a complaint by 20 members of Congress, stating \u2062that Thomas did not improperly fail to disclose information regarding his travel.<\/p>\n<p>For more\u200b information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a> to visit the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas&#8217;s 2022 financial disclosure, obtained by the Washington Examiner, reveals a comprehensive overview of his and his wife Virginia &#8220;Ginni&#8221; Thomas&#8217;s finances. Liberal groups persist in accusing conservative justices of financial ethics violations, as the document spans nine pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2017935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}