Peeking Under the Robes

Judicial Watch has obtained and posted the 2003 financial disclosure statements of every sitting federal judge. Supe Scalia, for example, pulled down a cool $23,000 for four lectures last year; Clarence Thomas got a $500,000 book advance, and Richard Posner is indeed a busy man. Search away, and report the good stuff in the comments!

Comments

[jerrycho]

They're all borderline criminals, with some crossing the border! Illegally! I didn't even have to look. It saves time not to.

[Anon]

As someone who recruits and pays speakers, those teaching and speaking fees seem very reasonable.

[Hydroman]

Damn , I hope I never have to fill out one of those reports. I don`t even remember what I did last Wednesday.

[rvman]

"...and Richard Posner is indeed a busy man."

Words to live by.

[Douglas Fletcher]

$500,000 book advance? I think Hillary Clinton should demand a Senate Committee look into this.

[joe]

What kind of publishing house would believe they could make a buck by paying Clarence Thomas $500,000 for a book? Hillary, people wanted to read about.

Is this a Regnery Publishing deal? I suppose they'll ship 100,000 copies directly to Scaife's basement, and brag about their new bestseller.

[Isaac Bartram]

joe

Actually it was Harper Collins. I guess Rupert decided he needed to buy an interest in Clarence too. He paid a lot more for the stake in Hillary. But I suppose fiction sells better.

[dlc]

I appriciate that Judge Posner appears to have filled his out himself, bad handwriting and all. He even included a nice cover memo, very classy.

Judge Kennedy looks to be quite destitute from the looks of things - it appears he has little income, little retirement savings, and few investments - does anyone know how much a Sup Court justice makes?

[Rick]

Considering the media approach to Clinton books the expectation is some vague spectre of remembrance relating to those hearings will inflame the populace's seedy but resolutely puritanical unconscious. I hope it crashes and burns, and it might, since Thomas has long receded from the big public's viewfinder into the actual justice haze.