Justice Alito's Unreported Luxury Trip Raises Questions.

Justice Samuel Alito's preemptive defense against a ProPublica article accusing him of taking a luxury fishing vacation with a GOP billionaire who later had cases before the court was a PR miscue that gave fresh publicity to the growing series about the justices' conflicts of interest. Alito's dense argument lacked the connective tissue to explain what precisely ProPublica's piece was accusing him of, and his excuse-making was William Scott caliber but with a modern, Trumpian twist. The article reports that Alito didn't report the Alaska trip, in apparent violation of the law that requires members of the Supreme Court report most gifts, and that the billionaire's hedge fund came before the Supreme Court at least 10 times after the trip.