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.
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.
No agreements
Noninvestment income
Noninvestment incomeincludes 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.
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.
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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 whose aggregate value from the same source exceeds a certain threshold ($480 in 2023) within the reporting period and gifts that are individually worth more than 40% of that threshold. This only captures gifts that have been disclosed, which ProPublica reporting shows can be incomplete.
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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.
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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.
Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund
(XLK
)
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Buy
June 29, 2023
Sold
Aug. 22, 2023
Retirement Fund
None
iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF
(STIP
)
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Buy
Aug. 22, 2023
Sold
Aug. 30, 2023
Retirement Fund
$0 – $1,000
Dividend
VanEck JP Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF
(EMLC
)
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Buy
Aug. 22, 2023
Sold
Oct. 4, 2023
Retirement Fund
$0 – $1,000
Dividend
Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund ETF
(VWO
)
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Buy
Aug. 22, 2023
Sold
Aug. 30, 2023
Retirement Fund
None
Alabama Public School and College Authority bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Washington, Multnomah and Yamhill, OR, county school district bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Maricopa County Unified School District bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Washington Various Purpose General Obligation Refunding Bonds Series R-2015E
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Baltimore County, MD, Consolidated Public Improvement General Obligation Bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Cecil County Maryland Consolidated Public Improvement
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Ocean City, MD, General Obligation Municipal Purpose Bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Maryland Department of Transportation Consolidated Transportation Bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Anne Arundel County, MD, General Obligation Bonds
Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Bond
Alief, TX, Independent School District Bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Anne Arundel County, MD, General Obligation Consolidated General Improvements Bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Anne Arundel County, MD, General Obligation Consolidated General Water and Sewer Bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
University of Maryland Auxiliary Facility and Tuition Revenue Bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Howard County 3.25% DB UTX
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$0 – $1,000
Interest
New York City Transitional Finance Authority bond
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Arizona State University System Revenue Bonds
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Sold
Sept. 27, 2023
Bond
$1,001 – $2,500
Interest
Capital One CD
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Transaction Type
Transaction Date
Matured
June 2, 2023
Cash Account
$2,501 – $5,000
Interest
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.
1) Part VII, Line 219 - Anne Arundel Cnty MD GO Bds Ser 2015 5% 4/1/24 was inadvertantly reported in my 2022 financial disclosure report (Part VII, line 122) as a part sale but should have been reported as a complete sale.
As with previous reports, this report was prepared on my behalf by my accountant, and reviewed by the Legal Office of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosure.
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].
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