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Here are the details: Hedge fund executive and major GOP donor Paul Singer gave Alito a free Alaska trip, and not just any free trip: the investor flew the justice to Alaska in a private jet that would have cost Alito over $100,000 if he had chartered the plane himself. Alito was also accompanied on the trip by Leonard Leo – a name you might have heard from us before. He’s the longtime Federalist Society leader who had played an important role in Alito’s confirmation to the court, and he also popped up in reporting about Clarence Thomas's undisclosed trips with billionaire Harlan Crow. In the years after the fishing trip, Singer’s companies came before the court at least 10 times in cases with high stakes for Singer’s business. As just one example, the Supreme Court heard a case about the fund's long-running dispute with the government of Argentina in 2014 and ruled in Singer's favor – and Alito did not recuse himself. Alito has attempted to defend his failure to report the trip to the public, arguing that the law does not require flights like this one to be disclosed and saying that not disclosing such gifts is “standard practice” for the court. John, first of all, he’s just wrong on the law, which is pretty straightforward that gifts of private jet flights need to be disclosed. More fundamentally, if he’s right that this is standard practice on the Supreme Court, then that’s a major red flag and one more sign that the court is in dire need of judicial reform. Noah Bookbinder President CREW
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