Friend of Justice Clarence Thomas says he never broke ethics rules and has receipts to prove it
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Mark Paoletta, a friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says Thomas was in compliance with court ethics laws when he didn't disclose trips he took with his friend and billionaire GOP donor Harlan Crow.
Mark Paoletta, who has vigorously defended Thomas in the weeks after he came under scrutiny from Senate Democrats who said he was in violation of court ethics laws for those trips, said in a series of tweets that Thomas has been in compliance with governing ethics rules and that there is a paper trail to back that up. Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
"The Judicial Conference is the authoritative body for Judiciary under the law and the Judicial Conference ruling in 2012 concludes Justice Thomas acted properly in not disclosing trips," Paoletta, an attorney who served in the Trump and George W. Bush administrations and who is a close friend of the Thomas family, stated Wednesday.
"Justice Thomas complied with ethics law when he didn’t disclose trips under personal hospitality exception," Paoletta tweeted. "In 2011/12, Judicial Conference specifically reviewed complaints Thomas hadn’t properly disclosed trips and concluded Thomas acted properly in not disclosing."
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