Justice Alito files 2024 financial disclosure

Justice Samuel Alito reported reimbursement for just one trip – to speak at a Catholic university’s graduation ceremony in Ohio – in 2024. The news came as part of Alito’s annual financial disclosure, which was filed on Aug. 13 and released on Tuesday morning.

Alito was the last member of the court to file his disclosure. The other justices filed their forms on May 15, when they were due, and the forms were released in mid-June. However, federal judges and justices can receive an extension of up to 90 days to submit their forms, and Alito regularly does.

The disclosures filed by the justices are relatively opaque and are intended to provide information about potential conflicts of interest and the justices’ compliance with ethical standards, rather than snapshots of the justices’ wealth.

The justices’ financial disclosures have garnered increased attention in recent years, particularly in light of reporting by ProPublica that Justice Clarence Thomas had failed to disclose (among other things) private jet and superyacht trips in prior years and that Alito had flown on a private jet to Alaska with the owner of a hedge fund who had cases before the court at later dates.

In 2024, Alito disclosed that he had received $900 worth of concert tickets from a German princess, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. The New York Times subsequently reported that the then-64-year-old princess, “who burst onto the international scene in the 1980s in jeweled tiaras and a multicolored mohawk, has since evolved into a conservative Catholic with ties to the European far right” and had “welcomed” Alito “into her circle as a hero.”

The form that Alito filed in 2025 did not disclose any concert tickets. It indicated that he had been reimbursed for his food and lodging during his May 2024 trip to Steubenville, Ohio, where he was the commencement speaker for, and received an honorary degree from, the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Alito’s speech made news at the time, as he told his audience that “[s]upport for freedom of speech is ‘declining dangerously’” and that “[f]reedom of religion is also imperiled.”

Alito continued to serve as an honorary member of the advisory board at Duke Law School’s Bolch Institute, a program established at Duke Law School in 2018 to (among other things) create educational opportunities for sitting judges in the United States.

And along with his wife, Martha-Ann, Alito once again reported that he served as a member of the honorary board for the Franciscan Monastery for the Holy Land, a Washington, D.C., monastery “whose purpose is to support the Holy Land, its people and its holy sites.” The monastery has more than 50,000 visitors per year to see its gardens and “full-sized replicas of shrines from the Holy Land.”

Alito continues to hold a wide-ranging investment portfolio that includes mutual funds and municipal bonds but also shares in a large number of individual companies, including Molson Coors, 3M Co., Boeing, and Procter & Gamble. In April, the watchdog group Fix the Court reported that Alito’s stock ownership accounted for more than one-third of all of the justices’ recusals during the 2024-25 term.