Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (L) and Beyonce (R) Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disclosed receiving concert tickets from pop superstar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, one of several notable items revealed Friday in the high court’s latest financial disclosure reports. Jackson valued the four tickets at $3,711.84, according to her annual disclosure form, which covered … Read more
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ latest financial report belatedly acknowledges that he took multiple lavish vacations paid for by Republican billionaire Harlan Crow. The trips are detailed on the second-to-last page of the document, where, under a section allotted for “additional information or explanations,” Thomas describes two 2019 trips that were “inadvertently omitted” from his … Read more
(L-R) U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito attend Judge Neil Gorsuch’s judicial oath ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House April 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted millions of dollars’ … Read more
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks during a press conference following the weekly Senate caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 9, 2024. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades | Reuters Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., suggested Wednesday that the Supreme Court should punish at least two Democratic senators over their calls for Justice Samuel Alito … Read more
Whether we’re talking about a Class A motorcoach filled with the finest luxuries money can buy or a vintage Airstream travel trailer, there’s something incredibly appealing about hitting the open road and seeing the country. Heck, even Clarence Thomas gets it. One thing a lot of RV buyers don’t realize at the time, though, is … Read more
Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court justice who loves road trips in his RV almost as much as he loves stripping people of their rights, got himself into some hot water recently when the New York Times revealed the money for the RV came from a wealthy friend who later forgave the loan. Thomas reportedly made … Read more
Two leading Democratic senators are pressing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to say whether he repaid a wealthy friend any of the principal for a $267,230 loan he used to buy a luxury motorhome. The letter to Thomas’s lawyer, dated Tuesday, raises questions about potential tax violations by the conservative justice, who is the longest-serving … Read more
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One moment in particular, during Tuesday’s arguments over the availability of the abortion drug mifepristone before the Supreme Court, may have gone unnoticed ― despite its crucial importance. Justice Samuel Alito, the conservative who authored the court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, eschewed plain language in a question to Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar about … Read more
On Oct. 13, 2022, a handful of the country’s most conservative federal judges gathered inside a wine cellar at a luxury ski resort in Deer Valley, Utah. The surrounding mountains were ablaze with yellow aspens, and the speaker addressing the room joked that the judges were already planning their afternoon hikes. Before they could roam … Read more
