The Free Law Project, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to legal resources, has released a dataset tracking financial disclosures, which are self-reported assessments of income sources, made by court officers. The dataset contains 250,000 pages of financial records from 2003 to 2020, including complete financial disclosures made by every judge, justice, and magistrate from 2001 to 2018, 1.5 million investment records, and details for over 1,700 gifts that judges received. According to a follow-up investigation by the Wall Street Journal, 131 federal judges violated ethics laws by hearing a case in which they had a financial interest.Â
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