From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is a daily.

Today, the justices of a Supreme Court keep testing the rules that govern their ethics.

Adam Liptak reviews the allegations of misconduct and explores the growing calls to do something about it.

It's Monday, May 8th.

Adam, good morning.

Hello, Michael.

For once, Adam, we are not going to talk to you about a Supreme Court case.

Instead, we want to talk to you about the justices themselves and their ethics. If that's okay.

It's a timely subject. There's daily revelations about potential ethics problems at the Supreme Court.

Right. And that's exactly what we want to talk about. This slew of revelations over the past few weeks.

So can you just summarize the biggest of those revelations?

Well, the biggest ones by far all involved, Justice Clarence Thomas and his relationship with a billionaire Republican donor named Harlan Crow.

And the news organization, ProPublica, has now published three. How to characterize them.

Bomshells, I guess.

I call them bombshells.

A brand new report is raising some serious questions about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

And the lavish gifts that he reportedly accepted from a GOP mega donor.

So the first article concerned luxury trips that Crow has provided to Justice Thomas and his family for seemingly decades.

The report says that the Thomas' flu on Crow's private jet to Indonesia for the nine-day luxury vacation, one that they say is valued at more than $500,000.

Then a second ProPublica story reveals that Harlan Crow has purchased real estate from Justice Thomas.

A new report says a wealthy Republican donor owns the house where Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' mother lives.

To hear Harlan Crow tell it, he wants to turn this house into a museum to honor Justice Thomas.

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