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The Federalist Society

Nonprofit

37 Mentions

34 Reimbursements

$7K Income Paid

The Federalist Society has been linked to five current Supreme Court justices via their disclosure forms. These ties could include direct financial relationships — such as employment, travel reimbursements or gifts — as well as other connections, such as degrees awarded.

Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
Samuel Alito
Samuel Alito
Neil Gorsuch
Neil Gorsuch
Brett Kavanaugh
Brett Kavanaugh
Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett
  • Clarence Thomas 3 mentions

    3 mentions

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Jan. 31, 2020 Orlando, FL Speaking

    Guest speaker, Florida Chapters Conference

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Sept. 8, 2018 Fort Worth, TX Speaking

    Guest speaker, Texas Chapters Conference

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Jan. 26 – 29, 2008 Palm Springs, CA Speaking

    Speech

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
  • Samuel Alito 5 mentions

    5 mentions

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Oct. 19 – 23, 2011 Vienna, Austria Conference/Symposium, Speaking

    Speaking engagement; participate in conference with European judges and lawyers

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    March 10 – 14, 2011 Menlo Park, CA Speaking

    Speaking engagement

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Dec. 10 – 15, 2010 Paris, France Speaking

    Speaking engagement

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Nov. 11, 2004 Washington, DC Speaking

    Moderated panel discussion

    Food, Lodging
    London, United Kingdom Other

    UK-US Legal Exchange

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
  • Neil Gorsuch 7 mentions

    7 mentions

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Feb. 9 – 10, 2023 London and Oxford, United Kingdom Academic - Other, Speaking

    Speech and educational program

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
    Feb. 4 – 5, 2022 Orlando, FL Academic - Other, Speaking

    Speech and educational program

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
    Feb. 16 – 17, 2020 Denver, CO Academic - Other

    Educational program

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
    Nov. 15 – 16, 2013 Washington, DC Academic - Other

    Educational program

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
    Nov. 15 – 18, 2012 Washington, DC Conference/Symposium

    Law conference

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
    Feb. 4 – 5, 2009 New Haven, CT Speaking

    Talk at Yale University Law School

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
    April 17 – 19, 2008 Chicago, IL and Ann Arbor, MI Speaking

    Speeches, University of Chicago Law School and University of Michigan Law School

    Food, Hotel, Transportation
  • Brett Kavanaugh 9 mentions

    9 mentions

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    April 19 – 21, 2018 New Haven, CT Speaking

    Speak to Yale Federalist Society and to Yale Black Law Students Association

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    March 27, 2018 Cambridge, MA Speaking

    Participate on a panel and speak to Harvard Black Law Students Association

    Food, Transportation
    Feb. 22 – 24, 2018 South Bend, IN Speaking

    Speak to Notre Dame Federalist Society

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Oct. 22 – 23, 2015 New Haven, CT Speaking

    Speak to student group (Yale Law School)

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    April 7 – 8, 2015 New Haven, CT Speaking

    Speak to Black Law Students Association and student group with Judge Srinivasan (Yale Law School)

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

    Give speech at annual Yale Federalist Society banquet dinner

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Jan. 30 – 31, 2014 Cambridge, MA Speaking

    Give talk to students with Judge Tatel at joint appearance

    Lodging, Transportation
    Feb. 29 – March 4, 2012 Berkeley and Palo Alto, CA Speaking

    Speak to student group, speak on panel at Federalist Society Student Symposium (Berkeley Law School and Stanford Law Schools)

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Feb. 1 – 2, 2012 Lawrence, KS Speaking, Teaching

    Teach class, speak to students

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
  • Amy Coney Barrett $7K income • 13 mentions

    $7K income • 13 mentions

    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.

    Report Year Amount Purpose
    2016 $1,000.00 Speaking

    Honorarium

    2016 $3,000.00 Speaking

    Honoraria

    2016 $3,000.00 Speaking

    Honoraria

    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.

    Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
    Nov. 14 – 16, 2019 Washington, DC Speaking

    Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention panelist

    Food, Lodging, Parking, Transportation
    April 11 – 14, 2019 New Orleans, LA Speaking

    Federalist Society lecture, educational

    Food, Transportation
    April 4 – 5, 2019 Charlottesville, VA Speaking

    Federalist Society lecture, educational

    Food, Lodging, Parking, Transportation
    Feb. 25, 2019 Philadelphia, PA Speaking

    Federalist Society lecture, educational

    Food, Lodging, Parking, Transportation
    Nov. 29 – 30, 2018 New Haven, CT Academic - Other

    Yale Law School, educational

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    Nov. 14 – 18, 2018 Washington, DC Conference/Symposium

    Federalist Society Lawyers Convention

    Food, Lodging, Registration, Transportation
    Sept. 26 – 28, 2018 Palo Alto, CA Speaking

    Stanford Law School educational activity

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    March 17 – 18, 2018 Hillsdale, MI Speaking

    Hillsdale College, educational

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    March 9 – 11, 2018 Washington, DC Conference/Symposium

    National Student Symposium

    Food, Lodging, Transportation
    March 5 – 6, 2018 New York, NY Speaking

    Columbia Law School, educational

    Food, Lodging, Transportation

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

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