Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has disclosed that he took several private trips on the plane of a Republican donor. The trips were not previously known, and they have raised concerns about Thomas’s potential conflicts of interest.
Thomas took the trips on the plane of David Koch, the late billionaire businessman and conservative activist. Koch was a major donor to Thomas’s wife, Virginia Thomas, who is a conservative activist.
The disclosure of the trips has raised concerns about whether Thomas could be influenced by Koch’s political views. Thomas has said that he will recuse himself from any cases involving Koch Industries, Koch’s company.
The disclosure of the trips is the latest controversy to surround Thomas. He has also been criticized for his wife’s political activism, and for his role in the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
