Alito disputes new ProPublica report that says justice failed to disclose trip with billionaire who
Source: CNN
Justice Samuel Alito did not disclose a luxury 2008 trip he took in which a hedge fund billionaire flew him on a private jet, even though the businessman would later repeatedly ask the Supreme Court to intervene on his behalf, ProPublica reported.
In a highly unusual move, Alito preemptively disputed the nature of the report before it published Tuesday night, authoring an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in which he acknowledged knowing billionaire Paul Singer but downplaying their relationship.
The new report adds to the growing list of ethics questions surrounding the court, which have become a key focus of congressional Democrats. Earlier this year, reporting by ProPublica about a relationship between Justice Clarence Thomas and a frequent Republican donor led to calls for greater transparency about the financial disclosure process for the Supreme Court.
The publication said Singer flew Alito to Alaska on a private jet and that the justice did not report the fishing trip or the private jet flight on his annual financial disclosure or recuse himself from cases involving Singer’s hedge fund that came before the court. In the years following the 2008 trip, the billionaire’s hedge fund “came before the court at least 10 times in cases where his role was often covered by the legal press and mainstream media,” ProPublica reported.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/politics/samuel-alito-paul-singer-propublica/index.html
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just saying.....he helped gut the voting rights, deny the right to privacy.....unions he hates unions.....just for starters.....but give him a free meal at the Federalist Society get together, why he's all in....
