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Judge Maryellen Noreika was not an especially high-profile figure in the small legal community in the nation’s second-smallest state. That’s changed.

WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas said he was advised he didn’t have to disclose private jet flights and luxury vacations paid for by billionaire Harlan Crow because, although a close

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Monday asked Texas billionaire Harlan Crow to voluntarily provide a detailed accounting of the gifts he has provided to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as well as information about Georgia properties that the prominent Republican donor purchased from Thomas and his relatives.

In January 2005, though, the court declined to hear an appeal from an architecture firm that wanted more than $25 million from Trammell Crow Residential Co. for allegedly misusing copyrighted building designs.

Judge Pauline Newman, 95, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, is fighting an investigation by colleagues who allege she can no longer carry out her duties.

By The Associated Press - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday he was not required to disclose the many trips he and his wife took that were paid for by Republican

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday he was not required to disclose the many trips he and his wife took that were paid for by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow.

Describing Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow and his wife as dear friends, Justice Clarence Thomas says he was advised by colleagues that personal hospitality from close friends was not reportable.

ProPublica reported Thomas, who has been a justice for more than 31 years, has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow nearly every year.