By Gabrielle M. Etzel and Kaelan Deese | Washington Examiner
Senate Democrats on Saturday morning concluded a nearly two-year-long investigation into the ethical practices of the Supreme Court, issuing a final report that focused on the court’s conservative members, accusing them of impropriety such as accepting lavish gifts and failing to recuse amidst conflicts of interests.
“Now more than ever before, as a result of information gathered by subpoenas, we know the extent to which the Supreme Court is mired in an ethical crisis of its own making,” Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Dick Durbin (D-IL) said in a statement Saturday morning.
The 97-page staff report accuses Justice Clarence Thomas, who joined the court in 1991, of receiving millions of dollars in gifts over the years with a level of extravagance that has “no comparison in modern American history.”