Corporate execs and lawyers with business before the Supreme Court mingled with some of the country's most influential jurists.
Revelations about Thomas and Crow's relationship have prompted calls in Congress for the Supreme Court to adopt its first-ever binding code of ethics.
But as a Supreme Court justice, Kagan is not currently bound by those rules.
The Aspen Institute isn't alone in dangling Supreme Court access to lure deep-pocketed donors.
Financial support for a public mission flowed one way, and scheduled private time with Supreme Court justices was dispensed in return.
Persons:
Meryl Chertoff, Kagan, Michael Chertoff, SCOTUS, Elena Kagan, execs, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump, Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Harlan Crow, Thomas, Kathleen Clark, Louis, Clark, Kavanaugh —, Shook, Hardy, Bacon, Tristan Duncan, Peabody, Christina Sullivan, Brian O'Connor, Sandra Day O'Connor, Lakhani, That's, litigator, George W, Bush, Michael Chertoff's, wasn't, he'd, Chertoff, John Roberts, Gabe Roth, Roth, Crow, Rob Schenck, Tom Monaghan, Jay Sekulow, Sidney Powell —, Sonia Sotomayor's, that's
Organizations:
Service, Aspen Institute, DC, Aspen, Washington University, Peabody Energy, Peabody, Duncan, Speedway, Supreme, Aspen Institute's Justice, Society, Homeland Security, Chertoff, CNN, The New York Times, Historical Society, Trump, Associated Press, University of Colorado Law School
Locations:
Wall, Silicon, St, Washington, Pakistan, Chertoff, Aspen Institute isn't