The justices have denied wrongdoing, and the court has pushed back on oversight. Politico then reported earlier this week that conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch did not disclose a real estate transaction he made with the head of a law firm that practiced before the court. ![]() Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas has attracted the greatest controversy, after ProPublica reported earlier this month he did not disclose that he accepted luxury trips, including private jet flights, from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, while CNN later reported he also did not tell of a real estate deal he made with Crow. The Supreme Court has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks over reports suggesting potentially undisclosed conflicts of interest. The Senate and House Judiciary committees are now in possession of Price’s complaint. “Friends of John were mostly friends of Jane, and while it certainly did not harm her access to top people to have John as her spouse, I never saw her ‘use’ that inappropriately,” Mark Jungers, another ofJane Roberts’ former colleagues, told Insider. ![]() The New York Times first reported the existence of the whistleblower complaint in January, when a Supreme Court spokesman told the paper the chief justice is "attentive to ethical constraints" and complies with financial disclosure laws.
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