It’s been a couple of months since ProPublica revealed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had a secret billionaire benefactor, the commercial real estate mogul Harlan Crow. The scandal wasn’t that it was secret—although it discloses decades of lavish gifts and trips and even a real estate deal, none of which were disclosed to the public. The scandal was that Thomas and Crow confirmed all of the reporting, and basically shrugged it off. Now the other Supreme Court justices are making their own disclosures, including real estate (Clarence Thomas wasn’t among them). So what did Chief Justice John Roberts and the other judges disclose?
Each justice is required by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to submit financial disclosures. Those financial reports were released this month for the 2022 year and were previously covered by the news outlet SCOTUSblog, the premier source dedicated to court coverage (the first part of its name is an acronym for “Supreme Court of the United States”).
