'This is exactly the type of situation that an ethics code that included vetting of transactions and full disclosure would clear up,' the head of the watchdog accountable_us asserted.
to the Supreme Court, Brian Duffy, the CEO of the law firm Greenberg Traurig, signed a contract to purchase the property.
Duffy and his wife paid $1.825 million for the home. According to federal disclosure forms, Gorsuch—who held a 20% stake in the property—received between $250,001 and $500,000 from the transaction."Gorsuch might as well have just gotten a big sack with dollar signs on it." Since then, Greenberg Traurig has been involved in at least 22 Supreme Court cases. Gorsuch's opinion is recorded in 12 of those cases. He sided with Greenberg Traurig clients in eight of them.
While Duffy called the fact that Gorsuch was about to become a Supreme Court justice"irrelevant to the purchase of that property," ethics advocates blasted his failure to name the buyer.opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie."Gorsuch might as well have just gotten a big sack with dollar signs on it." ;“SCOTUS WATCH: @politico revealed that Justice Gorsuch sold a $1.8M mountain getaway to the CEO of a law firm that was active in cases Gorsuch ruled on.\n\nNow Gorsuch;’s sale is sparking calls for a stricter court ethics code ;��\nhttps://t.co/TbsEedcmzC;”
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