Supreme Court Justice Clarance Thomas reported taking private jet flights in the spring of last year because of security concerns that followed the leak of a Dobbs draft opinion.

The information appears in a financial disclosure for calendar year 2022 that was released on Thursday. It describes the rationale for the method of travel to Dallas in May of that year and states that the trip was paid for by Republican donor Harlan Crow, a longtime friend to Thomas.

“Because of the increased security risk following the Dobbs opinion leak,” the report said, “the May flights were by private plane for official travel as filer’s security detail recommended noncommercial travel whenever possible”

The report said the purpose of the reimbursement, which included meals as well as transportation, was for Thomas being a keynote speaker at the American Enterprise Institute’s Conference at Old Parkland. Also revealed were other trips paid for by Crow in 2022. The report additionally offers details about financial and real estate matters dating back several years to clear up what it said were prior omissions attributed to mistakes or to offer extra information outside a covered period on issues that have garnered attention in the media.

POLITICO obtained and published a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito in May 2022 indicating Roe v. Wade would be overturned. More than a month later, on June 24, the Supreme Court released Alito’s majority opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and Planned Parenthood v. Casey cases, which overturned the 1973 Roe decision and returned the issue of abortion to the states.

In delivering remarks at the Heritage Foundation in October, Alito said the leak “made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination, because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us.”

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Indeed, a man was arrested in June of 2022 and charged with allegedly attempting to murder fellow conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And GOP lawmakers have pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on enforcing a federal law against protests outside Supreme Court justices’ homes.

Chief Justice John Roberts tasked the Supreme Court’s marshal, Gail Curley, with investigating the leak. The inquiry culminated in a report in January that failed to identify who was responsible.

Thomas and Alito released their 2022 financial disclosure reports on Thursday after receiving 90-day extensions. They have faced growing scrutiny from congressional Democrats over concerns that the justices had failed to properly disclose gifts and paid-for trips, spurred by reports from ProPublica. The filings come after the Judicial Conference issued a new guidance in March that reinforced personal hospitality disclosure rules.

A statement delivered to reporters by Elliot Berke, an attorney who assisted Thomas, said the new disclosure report “answers — and utterly refutes — the charges trumped up in this partisan feeding frenzy.”

House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said on Wednesday that an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden was likely “imminent” as some Republicans have asked for the impeachment process to move forward after months of investigations. 

Comer, who has led the investigations into the Biden family’s overseas business dealings, told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday that there would likely be a vote soon on opening an impeachment inquiry.

“There’s consensus in our conference now that we are going to have to go to the impeachment inquiry,” Comer said. “Obviously, that will be Speaker McCarthy’s call, but I feel like we’re there now, Sean. I feel like that is imminent.”

The White House has said that the president was never involved in Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals, which have come under scrutiny from investigators, or aware of what was going on, but House Republicans say that the evidence points otherwise. 

“I am here to tell you, Sean, Joe Biden was front and center,” Comer said. “He met with every one of these people that he claimed he never met with, that he never spoke to, and we are putting together the timeline where Hunter Biden was traveling to many of these countries on Air Force Two while Joe Biden was vice president.”

The Oversight Committee on Wednesday called on the National Archives to produce records detailing when and where Hunter had access to Air Force Two. According to recent reports, Hunter accompanied then-Vice President Biden on more than a dozen foreign trips on Air Force Two — the name given to any plane currently transporting the Vice President of the United States.

Some Republicans in the House have already filed to impeach the president, including Florida Rep. Greg Steube and Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles. 

“It’s long past time to impeach Joe Biden,” Stebue said in a statement earlier this month. “He has undermined the integrity of his office, brought disrepute on the Presidency, betrayed his trust as President, and acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice at the expense of America’s citizens.”

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On Wednesday, South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman said that he believed it was time for the House to move forward with the inquiry and praised Comer’s investigative work. “I don’t know what more people need,” he told Just the News. “Now’s the time. If not now, when?” 

“Since Republicans have taken over James Comer has done a great job of exposing – not hearsay, not innuendo, not anecdotal evidence – but direct evidence that links the leader of the free world, Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter, to a money laundering scheme,” he added. 

Former President Donald Trump said in a Sunday Truth Social post that House Republicans should “IMPEACH the BUM, or fade into OBLIVION,” saying an inquiry was not needed. 

“The Republicans in Congress, though well meaning, keep talking about an Impeachment ‘Inquiry’ on Crooked Joe Biden. Look, the guy got bribed, he paid people off, and he wouldn’t give One Billion Dollars to Ukraine unless they ‘got rid of the Prosecutor.’ Biden is a Stone Cold Crook-You don’t need a long INQUIRY to prove it, it’s already proven,” he posted.