With Clarence Thomas under scrutiny, a report states that Gorsuch sold a home to a major litigator whose firm is frequently before the Supreme Court.
, in which the Court restricted the EPA’s authority to force the emissions cuts necessary to combat climate change.
Gorsuch did not respond to Politico’s request for comment, but Duffy told Politico that he has “never met” Gorsuch and never tried a case in front of him. The lawyer said he is a fly-fisher who has been looking for the right place for years. In all the houses in all the west, it just so happened that he closed on the one owned by the Supreme Court justice six days into his tenure. “It’s a wonderful piece of property and we’re so glad we bought it,” Duffy said.
is a much more serious ethics violation than the discreet one involving Gorsuch’s failure to disclose that he sold his property to a major litigator whose firm would have business in front of the Supreme Court. But it still reveals . The financial disclosure form Gorsuch filed “didn’t indicate that there had been a real estate sale or a purchaser,” according to Politico. Gorsuch only listed the name of the LLC he and his co-owners had for the property.Sign Up for the Intelligencer Newsletter
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