See what's in the Supreme Court justices' annual financial disclosures

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Washington — Annual fiscal disclosures for members of the Supreme Court were released to the nationalist Tuesday, detailing the gifts and incomes the justices received successful 2024, arsenic good arsenic immoderate positions held extracurricular of the court.

Reports for 8 of the 9 sitting members of the precocious tribunal were owed connected May 15. Justice Samuel Alito requested a 90-day extension, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, arsenic helium has done successful the past. 

The fiscal disclosure study showed 3 of the justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Neil Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson — brought successful wealth from books past year. Jackson raked successful $2 cardinal from Penguin Random House, the steadfast of her memoir, "Lovely One," portion Sotomayor earned much than $130,000 successful royalties and an advance. Gorsuch brought successful $250,000 successful royalties from HarperCollins Publishers, and an further $259 from Princeton University Press.

Sotomayor said that she visited the Coterie Theatre successful Kansas City, Missouri, to "review a store performance" of "Just Ask," her children's publication that was adapted arsenic a musical. The travel was valued astatine $1,437, according to her report.

The justness besides listed reimbursements for travel, lodging and meals from universities successful the U.S., Panama, Switzerland and Austria, wherever she participated successful conferences and different speaking events. 

Justice Clarence Thomas, whose disclosures person travel nether scrutiny due to the fact that of travels with his longtime person and existent property developer Harlan Crow, reported nary gifts, reimbursements oregon extracurricular income from past year. He remains an honorary subordinate of the Horatio Alger Association, according to his filing.

Several Supreme Court members disclosed teaching positions, including Chief Justice John Roberts, who taught a two-week people for New England Law's summertime programme successful Galway, Ireland, successful July 2024. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett each were adjunct professors astatine Notre Dame Law School, earning conscionable implicit $31,800 apiece, according to their reports. Gorsuch taught astatine George Mason University past twelvemonth and was paid $30,000.

Kavanaugh continues to manager girls' basketball, his disclosure shows.

Filed annually to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the disclosures person received heightened attraction since ProPublica revealed successful 2023 luxury trips Thomas accepted from Crow, a large GOP donor, crossed their much than two-decade-long friendship. The justice's vacations to Bali and a backstage nine successful California had not been included connected his fiscal disclosure reports astatine the time, and flights connected Crow's backstage plane had besides been omitted. 

Thomas has agelong maintained that helium did not believe helium had to disclose the question and vowed to comply with guidelines astir idiosyncratic hospitality issued successful 2023 by the Judicial Conference, the policymaking assemblage for the national judiciary. His report for 2022 did see flights Thomas took aboard Crow's backstage jet, arsenic good arsenic lodging astatine the developer's spot successful the Adirondacks. Thomas' disclosure signifier covering 2023 included an amendment to his 2019 study that listed 2 trips helium took with Crow that twelvemonth to Bali and Monte Rio, California.

Still, the details astir his travels with Crow ignited calls for a codification of behaviour for the Supreme Court. The precocious tribunal adopted ceremonial morals rules and principles successful November 2023, which each 9 justices pledged to adhere to. But the codification came nether scrutiny due to the fact that it does not see a mechanics for enforcement.