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We up to date our Supreme Connections database with newly launched monetary disclosures from eight Supreme Courtroom justices on Friday, masking the 2024 calendar yr.
Supreme Connections is our database that makes it straightforward for anybody to browse justices’ monetary disclosures and to seek for connections to folks and corporations talked about inside them.
This replace contains disclosures filed in Might and made public late final month. Justice Samuel Alito acquired a 90-day extension, and his disclosure is predicted later this summer season.
The most recent replace particulars thousands and thousands in e-book earnings, nearly 40 journeys and one present.
Among the many disclosures:
Justice Clarence Thomas’ 2024 disclosure listed no presents or journey reimbursements. In 2023, a ProPublica investigation revealed that Thomas was a frequent recipient of luxurious journey and presents from billionaire benefactors — and that he usually didn’t disclose them.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reported a $2.07 million advance from Penguin Random Home for her memoir, “Beautiful One,” printed in 2024. She additionally disclosed greater than a dozen reimbursed journeys to cities together with Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Seattle, Chicago and Boston, largely in connection together with her e-book tour.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor disclosed a $60,000 e-book advance and over $73,000 in further royalty funds, additionally from Penguin Random Home. She listed eight reimbursed journeys from numerous universities, together with worldwide journey to Panama Metropolis, Zurich and Vienna, in addition to a $1,437 present from the Coterie Theatre in Kansas Metropolis, Mo.
Justice Neil Gorsuch reported $250,000 in royalties from HarperCollins, plus earnings from instructing at George Mason College. He took at the least six paid-for journeys, together with worldwide journey to Germany and Portugal, and home stops in Los Angeles, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Williamsburg, Virginia.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett acquired $31,815 in instructing earnings from the College of Notre Dame and reported three journeys, together with journey to Malibu, California, and two visits to Notre Dame.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh reported $31,815 in instructing earnings from Notre Dame and listed two journeys there.
Justice Elena Kagan reported a visit to New York Metropolis for a speech at New York College.
Chief Justice John Roberts disclosed two reimbursed journeys: one to Galway, Eire, and one other to West Level, New York, for occasions hosted by New England Regulation and the US Navy Academy, respectively.
We’ve additionally added new methods to view the justices’ funding holdings. Beforehand, investments have been sorted by worth. Now, you possibly can group investments by account to see how justices construction their holdings, or you possibly can type investments by the order through which they seem on the unique disclosure kinds, making it simpler to cross-reference our information to the unique filings.
Browse the database to study extra.
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