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Beyoncé Tickets and Bali Trip in Supreme Court Financial Disclosures
It’s unclear exactly which concert Jackson or her family attended, but Beyoncé played a sold-out show during a thunderstorm in the Washington, D.C. area in August 2023.
The Renaissance Tour concert was attended by Vice President Kamala Harris, who later disclosed a gift of tickets from Beyoncé in her own annual disclosure forms, citing their value at $3,312.
Beyoncé’s tickets may have been the most eye-catching gifts given last year to a member of the country’s most powerful court, but they weren’t the only ones.
Jackson also revealed two art gifts to hang in his judicial chambers, worth a combined $12,500.
The most recent judge to join the high court also revealed more income from a book than any of her colleagues last year, the documents showed.
Jackson reported that she received a book advance of $893,750 from Penguin Random House, which is publishing her memoir “Lovely One” in September. Jackson is the court’s only judge appointed by the president Joe Biden.
Judge Clarence Thomas reported that he received two photo albums valued at $2,000 as gifts from Terrence Giroux, who heads the nonprofit Horatio Alger Association, and his wife Barbara.
Thomas also amended his 2019 disclosure report to disclose for the first time two trips he took as a guest of Harlan Crow, the Republican mega-donor whose luxury travel with Thomas sparked an ethics scandal last year.
Thomas’ amendments said the trips were “inadvertently omitted at the time of submission” of his 2019 report.
They showed that Crow provided him with food and lodging at a hotel in Bali, Indonesia, on one trip, and on another trip to a private club in Monte Rio, California, in July 2019.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh disclosed $340,000 in book royalty income from Javelin Group and Regnery Publishing.
Kavanaugh is writing a “legal memoir,” Axios reported on Thursday. Kavanaugh weathered a complicated confirmation process after being accused of committing sexual assault while in high school.
Justice Neil Gorsuch disclosed $250,000 in royalty income from HarperCollins Publishers for his book “Over Ruled,” which will be released in August.