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Who is Harlan Crow? Impeach Clarence Thomas trends amid luxury donor gifts revelation

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Jessica Cortez

Updated on January 29, 2026

A new report on ProPublica uncovered that High Court Equity Clarence Thomas acknowledged extravagance gifts from GOP’s super giver Harlan Crow for a considerable length of time yet neglected to unveil them in open filings, bringing up moral issues coming from the exchanges.

President George Shrub’s representative Clarence Thomas has filled in as a High Court equity for more than thirty years since he was designated in 1991. The report claimed that Equity Clarence Thomas, who procures $285,000 per year, traveled in Texas Tycoon Harlan Crow’s yacht and utilized his personal luxury planes on extravagance trips worth $500,000, consistently for almost twenty years.

Harlan Crow, 74, is a moderate tycoon engineer who made his fortune through land bargains. Crow was born in Dallas to a rich dad, Encumber Crow, a land monster who at one point claimed the vast majority of the properties in the country. Harlan Crow is credited with revamping the family fortune after Trammell Crow lost his speculations through awful arrangements.

According to the Money Road Diary, in 2021, Harlan Crow, who flaunts a 77-vehicle underground carport worth $55m in his house, was building a secretly constructed 228-foot ringer tower in the U.S. that sat straightforwardly outside his office window in Dallas.

The new ProPublica report asserted Clarence Thomas and his better half Ginni supposedly traveled in various nations and remained in properties claimed by the moderate very rich person Crow for almost twenty years. The outings generally remembered going for Crow’s extravagance yacht or personal luxury plane.

As per the report, while one of the excursions was uncovered in a public recording in 1997, others were helpfully clouded in the records.

The power source, refering to legitimate specialists, said that the Adjudicator’s inability to report a huge number of dollars worth of extravagance trips apparently disregards a moral regulation coming from the Watergate outrage that requires community workers to unveil gifts.

The report additionally expressed that Thomas went to a few gatherings facilitated by the extremely rich person on these get-aways that likewise remembered other well off preservationists for participation.

While Clarence Thomas is yet to make an announcement on the new disclosures, Twitter erupted with calls to denounce the High Court equity over his supposed obscure dealings with the moderate Texas tycoon. Clients remarked saying:

It's not like Harlan Crow is some apolitical pal of Thomas.

He CONSTANTLY has cases before the court. He funds groups that argue for outcomes that benefit him.

One group, CCI, filed 8 briefs before the Court. Thomas sided with Crow in all 8 cases.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 6, 2023


In an explanation to ProPublica, Crow said that the gifts were simple articulations of his 30-year kinship with the Adjudicator and his significant other and made little difference to the High Court Equity’s situation. The assertion read:

“Equity Thomas and Ginni never requested any of this friendliness,” adding, he “never got some information about a forthcoming or lower legal dispute, and Equity Thomas has never examined one.”
According to CNN, the report uncovering the association among Thomas and moderate tycoon Harlan Crow comes in the midst of developing requests from Congress that the Judges ought to unveil records to forestall any moral ambiguity.