Secret perks for Supreme Court Justice Thomas undermine the integrity of the bench

A bombshell report in ProPublica reveals that almost every year for two decades plus, a billionaire Republican donor has taken U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on his private jet and yacht, or hosted him on his luxury East Texas ranch or at his private resort in the Adirondacks. And Thomas has reported exactly none of Harlan Crow’s generosity on his financial disclosure forms required of high level public employees. The showering of gifts on an official who participates in the nation’s most consequential legal decisions — and the keeping in the dark of the public about such largesse ...