WASHINGTON: US Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas, who has discovered himself below scrutiny over his judicial selections and accepting lavish presents from a billionaire Republican, is dismissing the criticism as “nastiness” and “lies,” in accordance with US media.
“There is definitely been a number of negativity in our lives, my spouse and I, over the previous couple of years, however we select to not give attention to it,” the New York Occasions quoted Thomas as saying Friday at a judicial convention within the southern US state of Alabama.
Staunch conservative Thomas, the longest-serving justice on the court docket, has been embroiled in controversy because it emerged final 12 months that he had gone on a visit paid for by Republican donor and actual property tycoon Harlan Crow.
The justice has additionally confronted calls to recuse himself from instances associated to the 2020 election due to his spouse’s involvement with efforts to dam Joe Biden’s victory.
“What you will discover, particularly in Washington, is that persons are going to delight themselves on being terrible,” Thomas stated, in accordance with the Washington Put up. “It is a hideous place.”
Thomas careworn that he and his spouse attempt to ignore their critics and give attention to the constructive.
“You do not get to stop folks from doing horrible issues or saying horrible issues,” the justice was quoted as saying by the Occasions. “However one, it’s a must to perceive and settle for the truth that they do not, they cannot change you except you allow that.”
In accordance with a ProPublica investigation printed final 12 months, 75-year-old Thomas went on one journey to Indonesia paid for by Crow that alone was probably price $500,000.
He additionally joined Crow — whose friendship with the justice the New York Occasions in 2011 known as “uncommon and ethically delicate” — for journeys to an unique all-male wilderness resort in California and to properties in Texas and New York state over the previous twenty years.
Crow informed ProPublica that his presents to Thomas have been “no completely different from the hospitality we’ve prolonged to our many different expensive buddies,” and that the 2 had by no means mentioned pending instances.
Thomas, who was nominated for the court docket in 1991 after a affirmation course of by which he was accused of sexual harassment by a former aide, joined nearly all of judges who dominated to overturn the nationwide proper to abortion final 12 months.
He went additional than his colleagues, saying the conservative-dominated court docket also needs to look at its rulings on contraception and same-sex marriage.
“There is definitely been a number of negativity in our lives, my spouse and I, over the previous couple of years, however we select to not give attention to it,” the New York Occasions quoted Thomas as saying Friday at a judicial convention within the southern US state of Alabama.
Staunch conservative Thomas, the longest-serving justice on the court docket, has been embroiled in controversy because it emerged final 12 months that he had gone on a visit paid for by Republican donor and actual property tycoon Harlan Crow.
The justice has additionally confronted calls to recuse himself from instances associated to the 2020 election due to his spouse’s involvement with efforts to dam Joe Biden’s victory.
“What you will discover, particularly in Washington, is that persons are going to delight themselves on being terrible,” Thomas stated, in accordance with the Washington Put up. “It is a hideous place.”
Thomas careworn that he and his spouse attempt to ignore their critics and give attention to the constructive.
“You do not get to stop folks from doing horrible issues or saying horrible issues,” the justice was quoted as saying by the Occasions. “However one, it’s a must to perceive and settle for the truth that they do not, they cannot change you except you allow that.”
In accordance with a ProPublica investigation printed final 12 months, 75-year-old Thomas went on one journey to Indonesia paid for by Crow that alone was probably price $500,000.
He additionally joined Crow — whose friendship with the justice the New York Occasions in 2011 known as “uncommon and ethically delicate” — for journeys to an unique all-male wilderness resort in California and to properties in Texas and New York state over the previous twenty years.
Crow informed ProPublica that his presents to Thomas have been “no completely different from the hospitality we’ve prolonged to our many different expensive buddies,” and that the 2 had by no means mentioned pending instances.
Thomas, who was nominated for the court docket in 1991 after a affirmation course of by which he was accused of sexual harassment by a former aide, joined nearly all of judges who dominated to overturn the nationwide proper to abortion final 12 months.
He went additional than his colleagues, saying the conservative-dominated court docket also needs to look at its rulings on contraception and same-sex marriage.
