According to this toothless document, the justices aren’t supposed to hear matters where they have direct financial stakes in the parties. Thus, this new #software package & a tweak to the filing rules to require parties include their stock ticker symbols.
To be clear, lower #court #judges have been using conflict-checking software since 2007. #SCOTUS first hinted that it might start using conflict-checking software in 2023. After that, the Court went silent….
827 days later: mission accomplished!
Gabe Roth of Fix the Court put a fine point on the situation∶
“Per their most recent disclosures, only two justices, Chief Justice #Roberts & Justice #Alito, own individual stocks, with the former holding shares in two companies & the latter holding shares in more than two dozen.