Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has amended more than 20 years of financial-disclosure forms to include $680,000 in payments to his wife, Virginia, by a conservative think tank. Thomas acted after Common Cause, a liberal advocacy group, noted that Thomas failed to disclose on the forms that his wife was paid by the Heritage Foundation from 2003 to 2007.
Federal judges are required to file annual financial-disclosure forms that list the employers of their spouses. Thomas said the omission of his wife’s employers, primarily conservative institutions, resulted from a misunderstanding of the filing instructions.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
Mountainhead: Jesse Armstrong's tech bro satire sparkles with 'weapons-grade zingers'The Week Recommends The Succession creator's first feature film lacks the hit TV show's 'dramatic richness' – but makes for a horribly gripping watch
-
Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists – a 'riveting' exhibitionThe Week Recommends Pallant House exhibition offers fascinating instances of painterly reciprocity
-
Geoff Dyer shares his favourite books on warThe Week Recommends Out of Sheer Rage author chooses works by Martha Gellhorn, Michael Herr and Dexter Filkins
