Supreme Court justices release new financial disclosures - but not for Thomas, Alito [View all]
Last edited Wed Jun 7, 2023, 03:49 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: ABC News
A fresh batch of financial records for justices of the U.S. Supreme Court was published by the federal judiciary on Wednesday, which shed some light on their income and affiliations outside the court did not include key details that critics said will contribute to an elevated atmosphere of mistrust.
These highly anticipated disclosures, which cover all of 2022, arrive in the wake of revelations about Justice Clarence Thomas' financial ties to Texas billionaire and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, which critics have called an overt breach of rules and norms – and have prompted renewed calls for more robust transparency and enforcement.
But on Wednesday afternoon, when the records were published online, Thomas’ were not among them, suggesting that the conservative firebrand requested an extension. Justice Samuel Alito’s documents were also unavailable online. A court spokesperson was not immediately available for comment. Even so, experts said that financial disclosures for the other seven justices would draw more attention than normal under the weight of plummeting public trust and questions about their ethical requirements.
"These will definitely be the most scrutinized Supreme Court disclosures since the disclosure law went into effect 40 years ago," Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, a leading Supreme Court watchdog, told ABC News. "That said, I think what people will take away from them is how many unanswered questions remain about the justices' lives outside of the courtroom and their potential entanglements."
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/supreme-court-justices-release-new-financial-disclosures-thomas/story?id=99899949
Found where a news site posted them (they also included some from now-retired Justices who filed 2022 disclosures) -
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-07/supreme-court-justices-2022-financial-disclosures-released
(ALL PDFs)
Roberts
Sotomayor
Kagan
Gorsuch
Kavanaugh
Coney Barrett
Brown Jackson
Thomas (90-day extension)
Alito (90-day extension)
Kennedy
Souter
Breyer
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