Meanwhile, Jackson’s form detailed some notable gifts that the first Black woman to serve on the court received last year, including the flowers from Winfrey and a $580 painting. Her one foreign trip was to Canada in September to deliver a speech to the University of Toronto. Of the justices that released their forms on Wednesday, Barrett and Justice Elena Kagan reported taking the most trips – six apiece – with Kagan mostly traveling to US cities to deliver speeches to universities. Louis and Chicago at other points during the year. Gorsuch’s form said he traveled to Padua, Italy, in July to attend an “educational program” for George Mason University’s National Security Institute.Īnd Sotomayor was flown to Edinburgh, Scotland, in July by New York University to partake in its law school’s leadership conference, according to her form, which also said she took trips to St.
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Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/FILEĬlarence Thomas gets extension to file financial disclosures amid scrutiny of relationship with GOP megadonorīarrett’s trip to Italy in September was to deliver an address in Rome to the American College of Trial Lawyers, according to her report, while Kavanaugh’s said that he visited the city the same month to “speak and participate in (a) conference with foreign and American judges” for the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Supreme Court Associate Justice on the South Lawn of the White House Octoin Washington, DC. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett to be the U.S. The forms that were made public Wednesday show a court that is very much on the move, with many of its members traveling far to give speeches or attend conferences on trips paid for by universities or well-funded groups.Ī total of 20 trips were reported on the forms, with some justices taking more than others and at least one – Chief Justice John Roberts – reporting none at all. Thomas has come under intense scrutiny in recent months over his decision to not disclose years of luxury travel and gifts paid for by a GOP megadonor, as well as a private real estate transaction the justice and his family made with the billionaire. Though most of the justices released their 2022 forms on Wednesday, conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were given extensions to release theirs, according to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. The paperwork – mandated by federal law – requires members of the judiciary to publicly disclose their personal financial interests over the past year and detail income, investments, gifts and spousal salaries. These are a few of the things detailed in the annual financial disclosure forms released Wednesday by seven members of the Supreme Court. And Justice Sonia Sotomayor received nearly $150,000 in book royalties from her publisher. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received a $1,200 “congratulatory floral arrangement” from Oprah Winfrey. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch were flown to Italy.
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