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You want the latest financial disclosure reports filed by all nine of the US Supreme Court justices? We got 'em.
First up, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
No outside positions, no outside income, no gifts, no liabilities, only two reimbursed trips
First up, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
No outside positions, no outside income, no gifts, no liabilities, only two reimbursed trips
Justice Clarence Thomas: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
One outside position on the board of the Horatio Alger Association, three teaching posts = $28K in outside income, two reimbursed trips, no gifts, no liabilities
One outside position on the board of the Horatio Alger Association, three teaching posts = $28K in outside income, two reimbursed trips, no gifts, no liabilities
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
No outside positions, $2K in outside income, 14 reimbursed trips (two related to the movie about her), no gifts, no liabilies
No outside positions, $2K in outside income, 14 reimbursed trips (two related to the movie about her), no gifts, no liabilies
Justice Stephen Breyer: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
Two outside positions, $4,415 in royalty income, 12 reimbursed trips, no gifts, no liabilities
Two outside positions, $4,415 in royalty income, 12 reimbursed trips, no gifts, no liabilities
Justice Samuel Alito: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
Two outside positions, $20,250 in teaching income, 6 reimbursed trips, no gifts, no liabilities
Two outside positions, $20,250 in teaching income, 6 reimbursed trips, no gifts, no liabilities
Justice Sonia Sotomayor: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
1 outside position, $33K in what appears to be royalty income + $2K other income, 13 reimbursed trips, no gifts, one mortgage liability
1 outside position, $33K in what appears to be royalty income + $2K other income, 13 reimbursed trips, no gifts, one mortgage liability
Justice Elena Kagan: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
1 outside position, $17.5K in teaching income, 7 reimbursed trips, no gifts, no liabilities
1 outside position, $17.5K in teaching income, 7 reimbursed trips, no gifts, no liabilities
Justice Neil Gorsuch: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
2 outside positions, $225K in royalty income + $13,250 in teaching income, 4 reimbursed trips, 1 gift (a watercolor painting from Judge Terrence O'Brien), no liabilities
2 outside positions, $225K in royalty income + $13,250 in teaching income, 4 reimbursed trips, 1 gift (a watercolor painting from Judge Terrence O'Brien), no liabilities
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6152…
7 outside positions, $27,765 in teaching income, 4 reimbursed trips, no gifts, no liabilities
7 outside positions, $27,765 in teaching income, 4 reimbursed trips, no gifts, no liabilities
A few things to note: Federal judges, like other federal officials, file their annual financial reports in May (unless they get an extension). They cover financial activity for the *previous* year, so these are about the justices' activities in 2018
An aside: The federal judiciary makes these disclosures available to those who request them on a thumb drive that must be picked up in person or sent by mail. There is still no electronic access (thought it's better than the days when we could only get them in paper form)
There's a lot of math you can do to get a rough estimate of the justices' financial holdings (they list the value of assets according to a range, not a specific number). But without doing that, it's easy to see that Kavanaugh had the lowest value holdings in 2018
As Sen. Whitehouse notes in this statement, there are limits to what justices, judges, and other federal officials have to disclose in their financial report — for instance, they don't have to report the value of travel reimbursements or certain types of "personal hospitality"
