along with other justices more power to them. It is their right to sell a book if they wish. It is influence peddling we are searching for.
I don't like the way this article is written, there's no meat here.

A $250,000+ loan in less than 10 years? To me that is a thread worth pulling.

I mean he and his wife make more than that so it's not impossible at all. If we're going to attack him for gifts, grifts and bribes lets find something more substantial than that.

Must either be some sort of special access tickets or a fist full of tickets.

How about disclosing the $$$MILLIONS of dollars of bribes you got, Scalito???

$900 worth of tickets? He must have been scalping them.

Here is the NBC News headline and link to story -

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reports German princess gave him $900 concert tickets

(which was taken from AP)

Here is the Forbes headline and link to story -

Justice Samuel Alito Received $900 Concert Tickets From German Princess: What To Know About Princess Gloria Von Thurn Und Taxis

From CNN -

Justice Alito reports receiving concert tickets from German noblewoman

Or it didn't used to be, I suppose now it's the norm.

has about a dozen "revised submissions" over the next few years for just this year's filing. Many of the political candidates do the same thing with revision after revision. They should all have to hire accounting firms if we are going to continue to allow all this money into elections. Timely filings and no excuses.

Under the Constitution, no government official can accept a gift from a foreign government, unless it is approved by Congress.

Emalouments clause: [N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them [i.e., the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Accepting a gift from a foreign Prince , without the consent of Congress, is failing to uphold the Constitution. That’s impeachable.

Bring it up now.

She is a commoner with no role in the German government. Prinessin von Thurn und Taxis is legally her surname, not a title.

I think it would be difficult to place this gift under the Emoluments Clause.

The only reason this is getting the press it is that many Americans are fascinated by nobility/royalty and don't understand the fanciful nature of German "royalty".

I would imagine there are Emoluments the various Justices have accepted and would love to see an enforceable ethics policy placed on them.

I'm surprised they just don't accept anything, period.* I'm surprised they all don't just say, "Nope. I can't accept any gratuity of any kind." It's not like they need the perks or $$. Book deals and such are fine, IMO. They're making something and getting paid for it (unless, of course, someone with something to gain is paying them through the book deal in some kind of shady pay-to-play thing).

*not actually surprised b/c we all know who these conservatives justices are

A long time ago in 2009,
I watched the State of the Union address by President Obama.

Alito acted like an ass, even before The Dumpster came along.
Now I know is a bigger ASS than I thought he was.
He and his wife are a disgrace to the USSC and America.

Thomas is even more disgusting disgrace as is his wife.

We need to be able to do something about these horribly dishonest jurists!!!