By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Monday urged U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate luxury trips taken by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas that were paid for by a Republican donor – conduct they deemed inconsistent with ethical standards for “any person in a position of public trust.”
The committee will hold a hearing in the coming days on the matter, Chairman Richard Durbin and the panel’s 10 other Democratic members wrote in a letter to Roberts. The hearing, they said, would focus on “the need to restore confidence in the Supreme Court’s ethical standards.”
“And if the court does not resolve this issue on its own, the committee will consider legislation to resolve it,” they told Roberts. “But you do not need to wait for Congress to act to undertake your own investigation into the reported conduct and to ensure that it cannot happen again. We urge…
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