“I must respectfully decline your invitation,” Roberts wrote in a letter to Durbin, which was released by a spokesperson for the high court Tuesday. ”Company with ties to GOP megadonor and longtime friend of Justice Thomas had business before Supreme Court Thomas said in a statement that he had not reported the trips because the ethics guidelines in effect at the time had not required such disclosures. “If the full Court or any subset of the Court were to review the recusal decisions of individual Justices, it would create an undesirable situation in which the Court could affect the outcome of a case by selecting who among its Members may participate,” it says