I take it this is the piece that sent Alito crying to his handlers at the WSJ. #SCOTUS
Justice Alito took undisclosed fishing trip with GOP billionaire who later had cases before the court - ProPublica https://apple.news/APqAN1qWFT_qpFizC95yFhQ
As usual from ProPublica, this is just muckracking. The outfit would do much more good for the public by covering the reasoning in decisions rather than sensationalized personal attacks on members of the court.
Alito pointed out that ProPublica was about to publish yet another misleading article, and it seemed pretty reasonable to want to get ahead of the story.
Just one sample, if Alito came to the same conclusion as almost the entire rest of the court, maybe, just maybe, there was nothing untoward going on here?
Firstly, those federal laws apply to lower courts, and cannot legally apply to the Supreme Court without violating constitutional independence of the Court.
Secondly, financial disclosure rules don't apply to every single transaction, and these social trips were not even covered by the rules.
ProPublica's suggestions otherwise are horribly misleading of the public.
@volkris Financial disclosures are federal law, not suggestions.