Clarence Thomas
The "Last Week Tonight" host can't believe his offer to Thomas is legal: "It really feels like it shouldn't be."
âBut I have to get up the next morning and keep on fighting," the Supreme Court justice told a group of students.
Virginia Thomas, the conservative justice's wife, has worked to keep Trump in office.
âWhen you do something that benefits your family financially and youâre a public official,â the Ohio congressman said, âthatâs not supposed to happen.â
WHAT'S HAPPENING
"Justice will be done only if such a case is heard by judges whose impartiality cannot reasonably be questioned,â Sen. Richard Blumenthal said.
Interviews and newly unearthed documents reveal that Thomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow Supreme Court justices to take speaking fees.
The code "does not appear to contain any meaningful enforcement mechanisms to hold justices accountable," said Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Durbin.
Republicans filed dozens of last-minute amendments to stall efforts to compel the GOP Texas billionaire to produce information about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
The Senate minority leader accused Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Judiciary Committee chair, of targeting âprivate citizens with no legislative purpose.â
Sens. Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) plan to compel additional GOP benefactors as they step up their ethics probe into the Supreme Court.