Because of your support, we’re moving the needle forward in our fight for accountability, transparency, and ethics reform.
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Citizens for Ethics & Responsibility in Washington
John,

I wanted to reach out personally to say a big thank you to everyone who donated to CREW in the past few weeks. Your support means the world to all of us at CREW, and we couldn’t do this work without you.

Because of your support, we’re moving the needle forward in our fight for accountability, transparency, and ethics reform.

April was a busy month for us at CREW.
  • ProPublica broke the news about Supreme Court Justice Thomas’s undisclosed luxury trips and tight relationship with Harlan Crow in a groundbreaking news story featuring commentary and analysis from CREW’s Chief Ethics Counsel Virginia Canter.
  • When the news broke that Clarence Thomas also failed to disclose his sale of property to Crow, we filed a civil and criminal complaint to the Department of Justice and Chief Justice John Roberts urging investigations.
  • I was on MSNBC and CNN to explain the weight of Thomas’s violations and what the revelations could mean – and Virginia Canter also joined NPR’s Morning Edition to discuss the need for higher ethical standards for Supreme Court justices.
  • And just today, CREW submitted testimony for the record on judicial ethics reform, and I joined Senators Murphy and Padilla and at a press conference before the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing, urging action on a Supreme Court code of conduct.
John, we have no doubt that May will be busy too, because this is just the beginning of this fight.

Often it's the coverup, not the original conduct, that leads to accountability. That's one of the lessons of Watergate, and it's one that Justice Thomas appears not to have learned.

Clarence Thomas’s decades of deception will have a far deeper impact on our democracy. What else might he be hiding? And are other justices concealing real estate deals or similar relationships with wealthy and powerful activists?

These are questions CREW will fight to find answers to. We’ll continue to push for an investigation into Clarence Thomas’s unethical and possibly illegal violations. We’ll fight to restore integrity to the Supreme Court by continuing to push for judicial ethics reform.

We’ll fight to restore confidence in our judicial system and the legitimacy of the rule of law. There’s work to be done. And you can count on our team at CREW to continue the job.

We couldn’t do any of it without supporters like you. Thank you, again, for your support this week, and every week,

Noah Bookbinder
President
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