Thomas had asked for an extension to file his required annual disclosure report. His request came amid renewed scrutiny of Supreme Court ethics.
submitted their annual financial disclosure reports as normal, listing earnings, assets, gifts and stock holdings.revealed
ProPublica's reporting focused in part on the failure of Thomas and Alito to disclose travel and hospitality they received.Thomas said the gifts from Crow constituted “His report on Thursday expanded on that defense in a section explaining his approach. Before the rule change,"filer adhered to the then existing judicial regulations as his colleagues had done, both in practice and in consultation with the Judicial Conference," the report said.
He also questioned whether Congress has the power to impose stricter ethics rules on the court, an unusual intervention by a sitting justice into a live legal question. The justices could decide to impose new binding ethics rules without congressional intervention, but Kagan indicated that no agreement had been reached. Lower court judges are already subject to a binding ethics code.
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