Democrat urges Justice Roberts to act over Clarence Thomas’s ‘tangled web’

Senate majority whip and judiciary committee chair Dick Durbin ups pressure on chief justice Roberts to impose new ethics rules

US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas's ties to conservative political figures is an American embarrassment, and the question is whether that is shameful enough to the country's highest-ranking judge to do something about it, the Senate judiciary committee's chairperson said on Sunday.

This tangled web around justice ... Thomas just gets worse and worse by the day," Illinois's senior Democratic senator, Dick Durbin, said on CNN's State of the Union. I don't know what is going to come up next. I thought I heard it all, but disclosures about his activities just embarrass me."