Clarence Thomas, the conservative US Supreme Court justice, has disclosed that billionaire Harlan Crow paid for three trips to New York and Texas last year, after coming under fire for accepting gifts from the Republican donor.
In a form released on Thursday, Thomas reported that Crow, a personal friend, paid for two trips he took to Texas last year to attend a conference organised by the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank, as well as one trip to upstate New York, where the billionaire donor has a lakeside home.
According to the disclosure form, Thomas took one of the trips — to Texas in May 2022 — using private means because of security fears after the leak of a draft opinion in the landmark case Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the constitutional right to an abortion in the US.
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