The Senate Democrats on the judiciary committee have requested Harlan Crow, the billionaire GOP donor, provide more information about all gifts and payments exceeding $415 given to any justice of the Supreme Court or family member. Furthermore, they request an itemized list of real estate transactions as well as trips. This comes after ProPublica reported Crow invited Justice Clarence Thomas on luxury vacations, paying for them, and that he provided Ginni Thomas, his wife, a consultancy job which was paid by the Judicial Education Project using a UPS store in Georgetown as the address. The request for more information also covers the gift of private school tuition paid for by Crow for Thomas' grandnephew, Mark Martin, of whom Thomas had legal custody and was raising as his son. It's said that Thomas knew these gifts needed to be reported because he disclosed a tuition payment gifted from a separate donor to Martin in 2002.

The letters from Judiciary Democrats were also sent to the holding companies that own Crow's private jet, private yacht, and Topridge Camp. Wyden, who is examining whether the gifts could have triggered violations of US tax law, sent a series of questions to Crow last month inquiring about trips over the years that the megadonor paid for on his private plane and super yacht that Thomas chose not to list on his financial disclosure forms. A spokesperson for Crow commented that "Senator Wyden's request is burdensome and harassing and we are preparing a response to demonstrate why it is an overreach."