This reads like a Christmas tree the place individuals or youngsters get to drag a tag off the tree and no matter it states is your reward. Besides this tree is the tree that retains on giving all 12 months.
There are three charts on this Newsweek article which pictorially particulars the numbers of presents and worth of them to every Justice. On the finish of this text is a hyperlink to an XCELL Unfold Sheet which offers you the numbers and {dollars} related to every justice. I would not have to elucidate to you who’s the #1 recipient. Have a look at the quantity. Then start to surprise why no different Justice or Chief Justice mentioned a phrase.
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Supreme Court docket: Items for Justices Defined in 3 Charts
by Joe Edwards
U.S. Supreme Court docket justices have raked in tens of millions of {dollars} price in presents over the past 20 years, based on a report compiled by a court docket watchdog. The unofficial checklist was created by Repair the Court docket, a self-described nonpartisan, nonprofit group that advocates for larger openness and accountability within the federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
The information was compiled utilizing official disclosure studies in addition to reporting from plenty of media retailers which recognized presents obtained by justices between January 2004 and December 2023.
Newsweek has contacted the U.S. Supreme Court docket for remark.
“Fix the Court’s” govt director Gabe Roth mentioned . . .
“Supreme court docket justices shouldn’t be anticipating presents, not to mention the lots of of freebies price tens of millions of {dollars} they’ve obtained through the years.
Public servants who make 4 instances the median native wage, and who could make tens of millions writing books on any matter they like, can afford to pay for their very own holidays, autos, searching excursions and membership memberships — to say nothing of the affect the gift-givers are shopping for with their ‘generosity.’
Including . . .
“The ethics crisis at the Court won’t begin to abate until justices adopt stricter gift acceptance rules.”
Variety of Items
Based on Repair the Court docket’s evaluation, Justice Clarence Thomas obtained the most important portion of presents, figuring out 193 for the George H.W. Bush appointee who has served since 1991.
Second was the late Sandra Day O’Connor with 73, who died final 12 months. O’Connor was the primary girl appointed to the Supreme Court docket, by then President Ronald Reagan, and served from 1981 to 2006.
The late Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have been third and fourth with 67 and 61 recognized presents respectively. Scalia served 29 years on the court docket, and Ginsburg 27.
David Souter, who spent 18 years on the court docket earlier than he retired in 2009, and Brett Kavanaugh obtained only one reward, based on the findings.
Worth of Items
Thomas led right here as effectively, with doubtless presents totaling $4,042,286.
Justice Samuel Alito is alleged within the findings to have obtained simply over $170,000 price of presents.
Disclosed vs Undisclosed Items
The Supreme Court docket justices with the bottom whole worth of presents have been Kavanaugh, Souter and Amy Coney Barrett, with $100, $349, and $500 respectively.
The information additionally highlighted the stark distinction in formally declared presents and people who weren’t.
Based on Repair the Court docket, Thomas was the worst offender on this entrance. The watchdog believed he brazenly disclosed simply 8.5 p.c of all presents he obtained.
Kavanaugh and Barret disclosed none of their presents, nonetheless, the report estimates the pair solely obtained $600 price of presents between them.
Souter and the late John Paul Stevens have been the one two SCOTUS justices to reveal one hundred pc of their presents.
Justices should report presents over a specific amount, which is adjusted periodically for inflation, in a yearly report back to be reviewed by the Judicial Convention’s Committee on Monetary Disclosure. Latest pointers put this threshold at $415.
Nonetheless, private hospitality offered at a personal residence by a person is usually exempt from this requirement.
Supreme Court docket justices have come beneath fireplace over the controversy surrounding presents and who provides them.
A petition to question Alito over accepting presents from billionaire Paul Singer has obtained over 75,000 signatures. The Transfer On petition has been lively for nearly a 12 months.
In 2023 the Supreme Court docket adopted an ethics code following criticism referring to presents, fueled partially by reporting from retailers reminiscent of ProPublica, centered round presents from a billionaire Republican to Thomas.
Alito has additionally rejected calls to recuse himself from circumstances referring to the 2020 elections following studies that his spouse Martha-Ann Alito displayed an upside-down flag outdoors their residence shortly after the January 6 Capitol riot, an emblem related to the “Stop the Steal” marketing campaign which aimed to overturn President Joe Biden‘s victory.
Alito mentioned he was unaware of the connection between the inverted flag and the cease the steal motion.
“I recall that my wife did fly that flag for some period of time, but I do not remember how long it flew. And what is most relevant here is I had no involvement in the decision to fly that flag,” he wrote in a letter responding to the criticism.
Official monetary disclosures from the justices are anticipated to be reported on Friday.
“A Staggering Tally: Supreme Court Justices Accepted Hundreds of Gifts Worth Millions of Dollars,” Repair the Court docket
“Supreme Court justices’ gifts,” – Google Sheets
