In which we find Senator Sheldon Whitehouse howling into a void.
“We write to request that you appoint a Special Counsel to investigate possible violations of federal ethics and tax laws by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas. Over the past year, public reporting and Senate investigations have uncovered evidence of repeated and willful omissions of gifts and income from Justice Thomas’s financial disclosure reports required by the Ethics in Government Act. The Senate is investigating these omissions as it considers improvements to ethics and tax laws.”
Senator Ron Wyden joined in, but it’s hard to imagine Garland doing much of anything in regard to this request if all 50 Democratic senators signed on. There’s little doubt that Thomas’s gravy-train life is worthy of careful study. But unless the threat of expanding the court gets more substantive, it’s a unicorn hunt in which nobody leaves the cabin.
