Beyonce tickets Bali excursions and booking offers This is the ways Supreme Court justices earned money this year
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was given Beyonce tickets by the singer. Justice Clarence Thomas disclosed two trips he received from a the major GOP contributor Harlan Crow — a news report about the donated trips put the justice within hot water early in the year.
Four justices revealed the financials of book deals.
They span 2023 and 2023, were released to eight justices, including Justice Samuel Alito requesting a 90-day extension to his report.
Supreme Court justices are required to submit disclosures of gifts every year.
Justice Brown Jackson received four tickets from Beyonce worth more than $3700 (more than the PS2,900) to her concert.
Justice Thomas, meanwhile, included in the report of this year an admission that he had taken two trips with Mr. Crow in the year 2019, one trip to Bali and the other to California. The trips were disclosed as an addition to an earlier disclosure.
The California excursion was to the “private Club” as per the story, which could be referring towards Bohemian Grove, an exclusive California club that was a favorite of wealthy wealthy men. Justice Thomas reportedly has visited the club previously.
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Accommodation and food for both trips were given by the government to Justice Thomas, according to the report, but Justice Thomas did not provide the exact amount of money spent on the trip.
ProPublica revealed in the past year that the 2019 trip to Bali could be as high as $5000 (PS403,000).
In the course of its investigation the non-profit news website discovered that Justice Thomas accepted vacations from Mr. Crow who was a real estate entrepreneur, almost every year for the past two decades.
When the news story was published, Justice Thomas pushed back in a statement that “this kind of personal hospitality” does not have to be included in an annual report.
A scathing review of the decision resulted in similar criticism of other justices in the past year.
On Friday justices Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh and Brown Jackson declared book royalties in their disclosures of financials.
Justice Brown Jackson made more than 893,000 (more than the PS702,000) to advance a book for a memoir that is yet to be released.
Justice Kavanaugh disclosed receiving $340,000 (PS267,000) for the publication of a “legal autobiography”.