Yachts, $10m payouts and secret hunting trips: The Supreme Court’s long history of ethics scandals

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Crow also bought a group of properties from Justice Thomas in Georgia, and currently owns the house where the high court judge’s mother lives. Clarence Thomas gifts scandal: US Senate panel to examine Supreme Court ethics It’s not the first time Ms Thomas’s work as a conservative activist has raised eyebrows. In 2011, Justice Thomas, under scrutiny from watchdog groups, updated years of disclosure forms to include the fact that Ms Thomas, a conservative activist, earned more then $686,000 in income from the right-leaning Heritage Foundation between 2003 and 2007, a discrepancy Mr Thomas attributed to “a misunderstanding of filing instructions.” Chief Justice John Roberts and his Million-Dollar Headhunter Wife Jane Roberts, wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, has also come in for scrutiny for her business activities. Now it’s considered bigotry.” A Justice who would ‘do anything if you take him hunting’ Clarence Thomas isn’t the only high court judge who has come under scrutiny for his lavish travel and elbow-rubbing with the conservative elite.