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- A group of senators complained about Clarence Thomas' dealings with Harlan Crow.
- The complaint was sent to the US judges' Committee on Financial Disclosure.
- One of its members recused himself after Insider found he wrote a provocative article about Thomas.
Faced with a spate of embarrassing revelations about Justice Clarence Thomas, and demands for answers from Democratic senators, Chief Justice John Roberts delegated questions about Thomas' disclosures to a little-known group of judges that now finds itself in the spotlight.
For now, questions about Thomas's previously undisclosed financial dealings with Harlan Crow, a billionaire Texas real-estate developer, will fall to an obscure committee of sixteen federal judges — the Committee on Financial Disclosure.