ProPublica found evidence that Clarence Thomas had flown on this billionaire Harlan Crow's private plane from DC to New Haven and back for a visit that lasted only three hours. It looked like he was flying on this jet for a lunchtime appointment. We talked to other private jet charter companies and they told us that renting a jet for a trip like that would cost about $70,000.
In a hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee took on the Supreme Court’s lack of ethics standards. ProPublica’s Joshua Kaplan explains how his reporting on Justice Clarence Thomas’s history of accepting gifts from a conservative megadonor led to increased scrutiny of the court.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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