Supreme Court justices and all federal judges must provide a fuller public accounting of free trips, meals and other gifts they accept from corporations or organizations, according to revised regulations quietly adopted this month.
with a prominent Washington attorney, highlighting how little Americans know about the perks justices enjoy and who provides them.
In general, he said, a judge or justice who has the expenses of a hotel stay covered by a friend should be required to disclose that information. “The new rule appears to require such reporting,” Roth said. That change would not have been needed at all had the judiciary been following the law the way Congress and the executive branch claimed to be following it, according to Kedric Payne, senior director for ethics at the Campaign Legal Center, an advocacy group.
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