Perhaps this is the question U.S. senators should have been asking Supreme Court nominees all along: “How many undisclosed lavish perks do you plan to accept from billionaires with business before the court?”
As we learned earlier about Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito sees no problem with wallowing in luxurious amenities from billionaires with business before the court. In the most recent revelation by ProPublica, the public learned that Alito took a freebie 2008 trip to an Alaskan luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, getting there on a private jet provided by hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, who later had cases in front of the Supreme Court asking for rulings that could, and did, further enrich him — cases from which Alito did not recuse himself.
