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CNN — Senate Democrats railed against Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday amid reports that the Supreme Court conservati…

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin has promised that his committee will hold a hearing on the alleged ethics violati…

Asked if subpoenas were on the table, Durbin said that no decision has been made on that yet.

He said that it was “too soon” to more information about what his committee’s hearing on Supreme Court ethics might loo…

He and other Judiciary Democrats sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts last week calling for him to open an inves…

Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who sits on the Judiciary Committee, told reporters Tuesday that “the Americ…

” “I hope that will voluntarily appear, and if not, we should consider subpoenas for him and others, Harlan Crow, who h…

Other Democrats on the committee said Tuesday that they were deferring to Durbin, who huddled with Democrats on Monday …

Meanwhile, Republicans appear mostly united in defending the Thomas, suggesting the court can handle its own affairs.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell attacked Democrats for criticizing the court, and said he has confidence in Robe…

” “The Democrats, it seems to me, spent a lot of time criticizing individual members of the court and going after the c…

Bringing more transparency to the high court has had some bipartisan support in the past, but the court’s jerk to the r…

In recent years, the conservative majority has handled pivotal rulings undoing abortions rights, dismantling gun regula…

Even as Senate Democrats have yet to settle on a plan for their own response to the Thomas allegations, they sought to …

“I’m disturbed by the recent reports detailing potentially unethical – even potentially illegal conduct – at the highes…

Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, said at a Judiciary Committee hearing for three lower court nominees on Tuesday.

“It should go without saying that judges at all levels should be held to strict and enforceable ethical standards.

” Durbin said in a speech that Congress shouldn’t have to wait for the court to act.

“The Supreme Court doesn’t need to wait on Congress to clean up its act; the justices could take action today if they w…

Back-to back-reports in ProPublica this month detailed how luxury travel and gifts to Thomas from Crow – and even a rea…

Thomas has said that the travel and gifts to him and his family that were financed by the Crows went unreported because…

” After scrutiny of those rules by lawmakers, the Judicial Conference – which operates as the policy-making body for th…

Thomas said that he intended to that updated guidance in the future, and a source close to the justice also told CNN in…

“If the reports are accurate, it stinks,” Sen.

Mitt Romney said Monday evening, in rare comments from a Republican criticizing Thomas’ lack of transparency.

Republicans defend Thomas and say SCOTUS can address ethics internally Other Republicans lined up in defense of the jus…

Bush in 1991 – and said it wasn’t Congress’ place to push an ethics code on the high court.

Josh Hawley, a Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, suggested that the accusations against Thomas were part of…

” This is not the first time Thomas has been at the center of an ethics controversy.

Last year, CNN reported that his wife Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist, was texting with Trump White House chief o…

Yet Republicans have shown little interest in joining Democrats in using legislation to impose an ethics code on the ju…

“The Court, kind of historically I think, has sort of policed itself,” said South Dakota Sen.

John Thune, the GOP’s Senate Whip, who said Thomas had been a “solid justice on the court through the years and has acq…

” “Let’s see what the court does,” South Carolina Sen.

Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, told CNN Tuesday.

“I prefer them to do it internally