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Martin Pengelly in Washington

AOC leads call for federal ethics investigation into Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas
ProPublic this week reported that Thomas had taken 38 undeclared vacations funded by billionaires and accepted gifts including expensive sports tickets. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty

Five House Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote to the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, to demand a federal investigation of the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, over his acceptance of undeclared gifts from billionaire rightwing donors.

“We write to urge the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into … Clarence Thomas for consistently failing to report significant gifts he received from Harlan Crow and other billionaires for nearly two decades in defiance of his duty under federal law,” the Democrats said.

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