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The justice, whose disclosures were widely anticipated in the wake of the controversy over Crow, typically files his financial disclosures by the May 15 deadline.
As he has in the past, Justice
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The upcoming release could offer fresh insight into Thomas’s finances for the first time since revelations this spring that Thomas and his wife traveled on Crow’s yacht and private jet. The GOP megadonor also bought Thomas’s childhood home in Georgia from the justice and his relatives, and paid for private schooling for Thomas’s grandnephew.
In April, after facing scrutiny over his ties to Crow, Thomas said he would adhere to new gift-reporting guidelines issued by the Judicial Conference, which makes policy for the federal judiciary. Those changes narrowed the exemption for “personal hospitality,” clarifying that a broader array of trips should be reported going forward.
The high court is not bound by the code of conduct that applies to other federal judges, though the justices say they follow those guidelines anyway.
Public confidence in the Supreme Court has declined amid the recent ethics controversies, according to recent polling.
The justices continued to make money from their books in 2022. Justice
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