Clarence Thomas: Ethics & Recusals
Appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1991 and confirmed 52-48 after the Anita Hill hearings — the closest Supreme Court confirmation vote in over a century at the time — Clarence Thomas is now the longest-serving justice on the current Court. He is also the center of the most extensively documented ethics scandal in the Supreme Court’s modern history — one that produced a Senate investigation, a wave of financial-disclosure amendments, and no consequences at all. This page consolidates his ethics and recusal record in one place, with sources, and explains why his case is the one reform advocates point to most often when arguing for a binding ethics code. ...