Justice Clarence Thomas’ 2022 financial disclosure released on Thursday includes additional information in compliance with new Judicial Conference rules, which the attorney who helped prepare it says refutes accusations of ethics violations that have been leveled against the justice for months.
Thomas, who applied for and was granted an extension on the May filing deadline, requested the law firm Berke Farah LLP and the accounting firm Flynn Abell Nixon LLC assist him with the financial disclosure after new rules were issued by the Judicial Conference of the United States in March. Elliot Berke, a Berke Farah LLP managing partner who assisted Thomas, said the justice’s recent disclosure refutes charges of ethics violations “trumped up in this partisan feeding frenzy.”
Over the past months, Thomas has been the subject of a number of reports by ProPublica and others alleging he violated ethics rules through accepting gifts from wealthy friends. Daily Caller News Foundation investigations revealed ProPublica, the outlet that has published the most on Thomas, shares many of the same donors with left-wing groups calling for the justice to resign or be investigated, in addition to citing ethics experts that overwhelmingly donated to Democrats.