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Brett Kavanaugh (2014)

Associate justice since Oct. 6, 2018

Positions

Positions are those where a justice was an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, representative, employee or consultant for any organization other than the U.S. government at the time the disclosure was filed.

Report Year Organization Title
2014 Harvard University Lecturer on law
2014 Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit Director
2014 American Law Institute Adviser
2014 Blessed Sacrament School Coach

5th-6th grade girls basketball team

Agreements

Agreements include any agreements into which a justice has entered, such as employment contracts, continuing payments from former employers and continuing participation in employee welfare or benefit plans maintained by a former employer.

Year Organization Terms
2015 Harvard University Teaching in fall 2015

Noninvestment income

Noninvestment income includes compensation from jobs the justice has had, such as teaching roles; jobs at law firms before they were judges; pension benefits; and royalties for intellectual property, such as books and copyrights.

Date/Year Organization Name Amount Purpose
2014 Harvard University $26,950.00 Teaching

Spousal income

Spousal income includes earned income from jobs a justice’s spouse has held, as well as honoraria. Justices are required to report a spouse’s income that exceeded $1,000 but are not required to disclose specific amounts.

No spouse-income

Travel Reimbursements

Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values. Show more.

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Date Source Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
Sept. – Nov., 2014 Harvard University Teaching

Teach two-credit class on “The Supreme Court 2005-2015”

Lodging, Transportation
Nov. 17 – 18, 2014 Harvard University Academic - Other

Speak to student group

Food, Lodging, Transportation
April 23 – 24, 2014 The Federalist Society New Haven, CT Speaking

Give speech at annual Yale Federalist Society banquet dinner

Food, Lodging, Transportation
March 5 – 7, 2014 The University of Chicago Chicago, IL Speaking

Give talks to students and faculty.

Food, Lodging, Transportation
March 5 – 7, 2014 Northwestern University Chicago, IL Moot Court, Speaking

Judge moot court competition and give talks to students

Food, Lodging, Transportation
Feb. 23 – 25, 2014 Duke University Durham, NC Moot Court, Speaking

Judge moot court competition and give talk to students

Food, Lodging, Transportation
Feb. 5 – 8, 2014 Stanford University Palo Alto, CA Moot Court, Speaking

Judge moot court competition and talk to students

Food, Lodging, Transportation
Jan. 30 – 31, 2014 American Constitution Society and The Federalist Society Cambridge, MA Speaking

Give talk to students with Judge Tatel at joint appearance

Lodging, Transportation
Jan. 5 – 22, 2014 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Teaching

Teach three-credit separation of powers class

Lodging, Transportation

Gifts

Gifts include gifts received by justices, their spouses or their dependent children from any source other than a relative. Justices are only required to disclose gifts worth more than $166 and whose aggregate value with other gifts from the same source exceed $415 within the reporting period, generally a calendar year. This only captures gifts that have been disclosed, which ProPublica reporting shows can be incomplete. Show more.

No gifts

Liabilities

Liabilities include debts that exceeded $10,000 at any time during the reporting period for justices, their spouses or their dependent children. Because justices have to report these each year, some debts may show up multiple times in the table. Show more.

Creditor Description Value
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Credit card $0 – $15,000
Thrift Savings Plan Loan $15,001 – $50,000

Investments

Investments include cash accounts, property, stocks, investment funds, retirement plans and other financial instruments owned by justices, their spouses and dependent children in excess of certain value thresholds or generating more than $200 in income in a year. Justices are not required to disclose information about their personal residences unless they generate rental income.

ProPublica has not extracted investments data for 2014. For information about Brett Kavanaugh’s investments, view the filing.

Additional Information or Explanations

Additional information or explanations include a justice’s explanatory comments clarifying other portions of the report. These may include explanations of apparent inconsistencies with previous reports, third-party opinions on possible conflicts of interest or other supporting documentation.

Part IV Reimbursements (Continued):

Northwestern Law School. March 5-7, 2014, Chicago, IL. Judge moot court competition and give talks to students, Transportation, lodging, meals,

Yale Law School Federalist Society. April 23-24, 2014. New Haven, CT. Give speech at annual Federalist Society banquet dinner, Transportation, lodging, meals.

Harvard Law School. September-November 2014. Teach 2-credit class on “The Supreme Court 2005-2015.” Transportation, lodging.

Harvard Law School Federalist Society. November 17-18, 2014. Speuk to student group. Transportation, lodging, meals.

About The Data

The bulk of the data we used came from the Free Law Project, which maintains a database of more than 35,000 financial disclosure records for federal judges, justices and magistrates, most of it dating back to 2003. These disclosures, which federal employees are required to file each year under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, are maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The law, however, requires most of them to be destroyed after six years, making many disclosures from earlier years hard to find. Our disclosures cover most of those filed since 2003, as well as some financial information disclosed by some justices during their Senate confirmations in 1990, 1991 and 2000. (Do you have information about a Supreme Court justice’s finances from before 2003? Email us.)

Because much of the data was extracted from PDFs using optical character recognition, we designed our own database and imported and cleaned the Free Law Project’s data to fix scanning and other errors. We corrected spelling errors, edited fields for style and clarity and, where possible, attempted to add contextual information by, for example, categorizing organizations and transactions, standardizing certain fields, updating entity names or filling in missing information.

In some cases, such as when the Free Law Project did not have a specific disclosure or had not extracted data from a report, we extracted or transcribed the data manually.

After cleaning and standardizing the data, we spot-checked it for accuracy, looking primarily for transcription or categorization errors. If you believe you see an error in the database, please contact us at [email protected].

More from Friends of the Court

ProPublica has reported that justices have sometimes failed to disclose speaking engagements and gifts like private jet travel and luxury vacations from wealthy and influential people. Read our series: Friends of the Court.

Do you have any tips on the courts? Contact us securely or reach out to ProPublica reporters Justin Elliott and Josh Kaplan.

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