Dick Durbin: Thomas’s “Tangled Web Just Gets Worse”

The Hill reports:

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Sunday said the “tangled web” around Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is facing criticism over his financial disclosures, “just gets worse.”

“This tangled web around Justice Clarence Thomas just gets worse and worse by the day. I don’t know what’s going to come up next. I thought I’d heard it all, but more disclosures about his activities — it just embarrasses me,” Durbin said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“The question is whether it embarrasses the Supreme Court and the chief justice,” Durbin said on Sunday, adding that Chief Justice John Roberts “has the power in his hands” to make ethics reforms on the nation’s highest court.

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Dang. Jake Tapper to Durbin: “All due respect, sir, you and your fellow Democrats were very ginger and very polite when it came to RBG and not pushing her to retire when you had a Democrat majority in the Senate. How’d that work out for you? How’d that work out for Roe v Wade?” pic.twitter.com/fC4RdQMHbu

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Durbin on CNN connects the dots between Clarence Thomas’s corruption and specific SCOTUS rulings pic.twitter.com/kzP7hnU6n4

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