{"id":15097,"date":"2023-04-19T02:31:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T02:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/top-us-senate-republican\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T02:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T02:34:22","slug":"top-us-senate-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/top-us-senate-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Top US Senate Republican backs U.S. Supreme Court chief amid calls for Thomas probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Katharine Jackson<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211;     U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday expressed support for the Supreme Court&#8217;s chief justice as Democrats urge him to investigate luxury trips taken by Justice Clarence Thomas that were paid for by a Republican donor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have total confidence in the Chief Justice of the United States to deal with these court internal issues,\u201d McConnell told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, in a letter sent to Chief Justice John Roberts on April 10, said Thomas&#8217; conduct violated ethical standards. <\/p>\n<p>The committee plans to hold a hearing on the matter but a date has not yet been announced. <\/p>\n<p>ProPublica reported on April 6 that Thomas accepted expensive trips from Republican donor and real estate magnate Harlan Crow over decades without disclosing them.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas defended the trips, saying he had been advised he was not required to report that type of &#8220;personal hospitality.&#8221; But the conservative justice said he would abide by new, tighter rules that recently took effect.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Katharine Jackson and Moira Warburton in Washington; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Cynthia Osterman)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/top-us-senate-republican\/u-s-senate-republicans-hold-weekly-press-conference-at-the-u-s\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3H0U6-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3H0U6-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday expressed support for the Supreme Court&#8217;s chief justice as Democrats urge him to investigate luxury trips taken by Justice Clarence Thomas that were paid for by a Republican donor. \u201cI have total confidence in the Chief Justice of the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1214],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-15097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-domestic","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3H0U6-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15099,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15097\/revisions\/15099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}