Scalia discloses 24 expense-paid trips

AP ^ | MARK SHERMAN

[Alex1977]

Media bias at work...

[My2Cents]

trips that took him as far as Ireland

As long as he wasn't there to discover precedence in Irish law, he can travel as much as he wants on my tab.

[drb9]

What the heck is wrong with Kennedy and Thomas that they can't scrape together their million?

[RichInOC]

Which Roman Catholic diocese of Louisiana? I'm pretty sure they have more than one down there.

[Mongeaux]

You have to wonder, if Kennedy had been the guy with the highest number of trips, would the AP still have run this story?

[deroberst]

It is amazing how modest his resources are for a person who has reached the very top in his well paid profession. Anybody who owns a home inside the Beltway is worth a million if the mortgage is paid off.

[Niteranger68]

Scalia also is one of at least six millionaires among the nine justices, with assets of $1.1 million to $2.6 million.

Nice try buttplug! You fooled with the words until it looked like Scalia was the only millionaire, but he is clearly in the majority. It's also amazing how the upper end of your range ($2.6 mil) is more than twice the lower end of your range ($1.1 mil).

[vaudine]

As millionaires go, he is a pretty poor one. What about the worth of Hill and Bill?

As for the trips, when orgn ask him to be a guest, is AP hinting he should pay his own way? His speaking trips can only enhance the US. How do his trips compare with Jimmuh, peanut-head Carter? Carter's trips diminish us, and I seriously doubt he pays for a one of them.

Everyday I loathe the MSM more and more.

vaudine

[facedown]

Sorry Mark, absolutely nobody cares.

[Doctor Stochastic]

...24 expense-paid trips ...

So about every two weeks, Scalia travelled on someone else's dime. One hopes he's not too tired to make decisions involving any of the payers.

[CollegeRepublican]

Seems to me that Ireland is closer than Australia.

Good for Scalia. I hope to be important enough some day to have people fly me all over the world.

[Doctor Stochastic]

...Justice Anthony M. Kennedy took 15 expense-paid trips and Justice Stephen Breyer made 14 in 2005.

And these guys just over once a month. The best Justice money can buy.

[Moonman62]

What the heck is wrong with Kennedy and Thomas that they can't scrape together their million?

If Thomas were a liberal you know what the article would be about.

[Gone GF]

"Nice try buttplug! You fooled with the words until it looked like Scalia was the only millionaire, but he is clearly in the majority."

The guy said he is one of at least six millionaires. Seems pretty clear to me he's not the only one. Don't see any fooling with the words here.

"It's also amazing how the upper end of your range ($2.6 mil) is more than twice the lower end of your range ($1.1 mil)."

It's not the author's range, it's one of the set ranges the justices are given to fill in on these forms.

[1Old Pro]

Justices are paid $203,000 each year. The chief justice's salary is $212,100.

It's a good thing they can get their travel subsidized, this is LOW pay for what they do.

[ErnBatavia]

I wonder how many trips Souter made to the Bathhouse...

[traviskicks]

LOL

[oceanview]

indeed, very low. we have public school teachers here on long island making near $125K a year.

[VOA]

The other millionaires on the court are Chief Justice John Roberts,
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter, John Paul Stevens and Breyer.

I don't know if it is still true, but some truth was leaked a few
years ago about "The Supremes" from their financial disclosures on
themselves and immediate family.

The "poorest" was the Scalia household.
The richest was the Ginsberg household. Her husband is rich...but maybe
she picked up a little change while working for that struggling charity,
the ACLU.

[Obie Wan]

Justice Antonin Scalia was the Supreme Court's most frequent traveler last year with 24 expense-paid trips that took him as far as Ireland, Italy, Turkey and Australia. Ho boy,ole Mark Sherman jumped on this obscure fact like a hound dog on pork chop didn't he ???