{"id":28912,"date":"2024-12-21T15:25:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/new-ethics-inquiry-details-more-trips-by-clarence-thomas-paid-for-by-wealthy-benefactors\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T15:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T15:25:36","slug":"new-ethics-inquiry-details-more-trips-by-clarence-thomas-paid-for-by-wealthy-benefactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/new-ethics-inquiry-details-more-trips-by-clarence-thomas-paid-for-by-wealthy-benefactors\/","title":{"rendered":"New ethics inquiry details more trips by Clarence Thomas paid for by wealthy benefactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation by Senate Democrats found that Thomas accepted gifts and travel worth more than $4.75m since 1991<\/p>\n<p>A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of supreme court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Any movement on the issue appears unlikely as Republicans prepare to take control of the Senate in January, underscoring the hurdles in imposing restrictions on a separate branch of government even as public confidence in the court has fallen to record lows.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/21\/ethics-inquiry-supreme-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation by Senate Democrats found that Thomas accepted gifts and travel worth more than $4.75m since 1991 A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of supreme court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct. Any movement on the issue &#8230; <a title=\"New ethics inquiry details more trips by Clarence Thomas paid for by wealthy benefactors\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/new-ethics-inquiry-details-more-trips-by-clarence-thomas-paid-for-by-wealthy-benefactors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New ethics inquiry details more trips by Clarence Thomas paid for by wealthy benefactors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}