Supreme Court Justice Alito Under Fire For Undisclosed Luxury Trip and Failure to Recuse

• Justice Samuel Alito accepted an expensive 2008 fishing trip in Alaska from Republican donors on a private jet, which he did not disclose on financial forms and from which he did not recuse himself in later cases involving one donor.
• Paul Singer, a billionaire hedge fund manager, provided his private jet for Alito's trip and had at least ten cases come before the Supreme Court after the trip, including one where Alito joined a 7-1 majority ruling in Singer's favor.
• Alito claims he did not need to disclose the trip or recuse himself, but experts argue he violated ethics laws and judicial standards.
• There have been growing calls for Supreme Court justices to be subject to an enforceable code of conduct and ethics body to review issues like Alito's.
• Alito wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal defending himself before the details of the trip were published, leading to criticism that the op-ed was an attempt to preemptively shape coverage of his wrongdoing.

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