Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday argued that the scrutiny on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over his financial disclosures is a “political smear job” as lawmakers push to shore up the court’s ethics standards.
“They’re not looking at any other judges. This is a political smear job directed at Clarence Thomas, because he is an extraordinary constitutionalist,” Cruz said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” The senator said he thinks Democrats are scrutinizing Thomas because an “African-American is not allowed to be a conservative.”
Recent reporting from ProPublica found that Thomas didn’t disclose several luxury trips paid for by Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, and that the justice also didn’t report a 2014 real estate deal he’d made with the same Republican megadonor. Thomas said later that he was “advised” that he did not need to disclose the trips.
Crow has also said he thinks the attacks on Thomas are politically motivated.
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