Experts cited in ProPublica's stories alleging Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito violated ethics rules have collectively given over $100,000 to left-wing causes, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden's presidential campaigns, Federal Election Commission records show.
A majority of ethics experts cited by ProPublica in its recent stories on Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito's alleged ethics violations have histories of donating to Democratic campaigns and left-wing causes, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Federal Election Commission records found.
Seven of the nine ethics experts cited in ProPublica's stories on Thomas and Alito have collectively given over $100,000 to Democratic campaigns and left-wing causes, FEC records show.
ProPublica published several stories over the past few months, citing experts who allege Thomas violated high court ethics rules by failing to disclose expensive trips he took with his billionaire friend Harlan Crow, along with Crow's purchase of Thomas' mother's home and the payment of his grandnephew's private school tuition.
Virginia Canter, chief ethics counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, who is cited in three of ProPublica's recent stories, contributed to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, former President Barack Obama's reelection campaign in 2012 and the Democratic National Committee in 2004, totaling over $1,000 in donations, according to FEC records.
Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law cited by ProPublica in its article on Justice Samuel Alito, has given nearly $12,000 to left-wing causes between 2008 and 2021, including presidential campaigns for Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, ActBlue and multiple congressional campaigns, according to FEC records.
Frost, who testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform in May, told ProPublica that Alito's trip shows that the idea we can "Just trust" justices to do the right thing while they "[remain] in total secrecy is unworkable.
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