Full disclosure, if you please

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appears to have failed more than once to file a full financial disclosure report. On April 6, ProPublica revealed that for years, Justice Thomas had not disclosed luxury trips and other gifts from Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, including on Mr. Crow’s private jet and super-yacht.

On Thursday, ProPublica reported that Mr. Crow purchased properties in Savannah, Ga., from Justice Thomas and his relatives in 2014. Again, the justice failed to make a proper disclosure.

The real estate sale is the first reported transaction in which money changed hands between the billionaire and the justice. Previously they maintained that all the hospitality was based on personal friendship and therefore exempt from disclosure requirements. They have also contended that Mr. Crow had no business before the court, although the Dallas real estate developer has a history of donations to conservative causes and the Republican Party.

Justice Thomas should immediately review all his financial disclosure reports, amend them with the newly revealed transactions and add any information he has not reported. The Judicial Conference of the United States, which oversees the federal judiciary, should press him to do so if he fails to complete the reports on his own.

The conference should then examine Justice Thomas’ conduct and determine whether his repeated nondisclosure merits a referral to the Justice Department.

Justice Thomas’ lapses undermine public trust in the court. They also reflect a disturbing indifference to official rules that is unacceptable for a justice, or any public servant.