Crow made the information public after the committee issued subpoenas in November to Crow and conservative activist Leonard Leo to provide information to the committee, but the subpoenas have not been served.
Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said the documents provide needed transparency and that the trip should have been reported in financial disclosures.
“The Senate Judiciary Committee’s continuing investigation into the Supreme Court’s ethical crisis has produced new information, such as that revealed today, that makes it abundantly clear that the Court needs an enforceable code of conduct as its justices continue to choose not to respond to the demands of the times,” Durbin said in a statement.
Crow said in a statement that he had reached an agreement with the Senate Judiciary Committee to provide information going back seven years.
Thomas’ unreported flights include:
- A private jet trip in May 2017 from St. Louis to Kalispell, Montana, and a return flight to Dallas.
- A round-trip private jet trip in March 2019 from Washington, DC to Savannah, Georgia.
- Round-trip private jet trip from Washington DC to San Jose in June 2021.
The document did not state the cost of the trip or why Thomas was traveling.
“The information Harlan Crow provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee fell within the ‘personal entertainment exemption’ and was not required to be disclosed by Judge Thomas,” Thomas’ lawyer, Elliott S. Burke, said in a statement.
Burke said Thomas had complied with the new disclosure requirements.
The revelation comes after Thomas revealed this month that he failed to report two trips, also paid for by Crow, to California and Indonesia in 2019. Thomas did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Senate Democrats on Wednesday tried to speed up passage of a bill that would create binding ethics rules for the Supreme Court, but were blocked by Republicans who said the bill’s true purpose was to weaken a conservative court that makes decisions Democrats don’t like.
“We will not cooperate with this illegal political retaliation campaign,” Leo said in a November statement after the subpoena was issued. Durbin’s office said a broader investigation into Supreme Court ethics by the Judiciary Committee was ongoing.
The committee’s investigation came after reports by ProPublica and other media outlets that Mr. Thomas and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. had taken undisclosed, expensive trips in recent years. Mr. Crow had paid tuition for a relative of Mr. Thomas’s and also bought a home for the justice’s mother.
“It’s surprising that previously undisclosed gifts by Justice Thomas are coming to light at this late date,” said Steven Lubet, a professor at Northwestern University Law School and an expert on judicial ethics.
Aaron Shaffer contributed to this report.
