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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's 2022 annual financial disclosure has been released after a delay due to the jurist requesting an extension on his filing.

And then we are only just beginning to understand how very improper our justice alitos interview in the wall street journal was. that was deeply improper. and thats gonna come out more. so supreme court justices and judges on the judicial conference need to understand that this is not going away. its going to continue to get worse because the heavier is inexcusable. >> we keep coming up against no guardrails here. and so just to go back to your point, where there is theoretically a deadline, tha...

Can you tell us? >> we already knew the clarence thomas had a very elaborate are the that he called the bus, a reconfigured bus, not your normal motor coach, there had been reports and 60 minutes is gotten inside at one point, leathers dietzen kitchen and bathroom, 40 feet long, not your standard rv, but what the new york times recently reported is that it cost $267,000, more than a quarter million, and it was financed in part by anthony walters, a healthcare executive, a longtime friend of clar...

Weak disclosure rules have helped keep anti-union consulting and legal work in the shadows.

July of 2008, say that he went on a fishing trip to a 2000 dollar a night luxury resort in alaska. the justice flew there on a private jet, that wouldve cost roughly $100,000.01 way. according to propublica, the trip was played for by gop megadonor paul singer. who at the time was trying to get the supreme court to take up a case that involved his company. the justice does not report the trip on his annual disclosure forms, which experts say may be a violation of a federal law that requires just...

Billionaire whose hedge fund later had cases before the high court. one of which was heard. tonight justice alito is pushing back. heres abcs terry moran. >> reporter: this time, its justice samuel alito under scrutiny for luxury travel paid for by a billionaire republican megadonor. "propublica," a nonprofit media organization, reporting that in 2008, justice alito flew to alaska for a fishing trip on a private jet that belonged to a hedge fund manager whose businesses brought several cases bef...

To the court of police himself. but after this, he gave perhaps his strongest condemnation yet in response to the new report. >> let me say the obvious. theres something rotten going on in the supreme court of the united states of america. the offense offered by justice alitos laughable. i took that seat on a jet plane and didnt feel like i had to report it because it was going to be empty anyway. give me a break. there is no reason why the highest court in our nation have the lowest ethics. >> ...

Not just on the state level but at the county level of the school board and local levels, and i think that voting rights activists really believed going into this case, that they were going to be left with a toolkit that was like a toothbrush and a hairspray. in order to get through the voting rights. but thats just not true anymore. so i think that over emboldened red states are kind of going to get spoofed out of those a little and i think that voting rights activists have meaningful tools now...

Knows, if youre handed classified information the government tells you the dos and donts of that intelligence exactly what the declassification process is. and certainly doesnt allow you to declassify it in your mind. so trump was aware that. these documents will show that, and thats going to blow a hole in his, i can declassify my mind to defense. >> neal katyal, thank you very much for joining us tonight. when we come back, today supreme court justice clarence thomas was the subject of the sen...

Unemployment? >> we will litigate all of that in the court of law. >> youre going to be voting on legislation that cracks down on unemployment fraud. how do you justify that? >> reporter: facing a host of other charges as well. including spending money raised to help his campaign on designer clothes and to pay off his personal debt. hes also accused of lying to congress on his mandatory financial disclosure forms. tonight, a growing number of republicans calling on santos to resign. >> we have t...