Fix the Court last week received a fourth batch of documents from the State Department concerning Supreme Court justices’ international travel from 2018 to 2024, for which the Department’s Diplomatic Security Services arranged protection.

The documents are being produced as a result of a FOIA lawsuit FTC filed in Mar. 2025. We previously received documents in March, April and June and expect more in late summer or early fall.

There was only one new trip in this batch: a two-day jaunt Justice Breyer appears to have taken in 2018. What’s interesting about this trip is that it involved two private plane flights — one from Dublin to London on Oct. 16; the other from London to Milan on Oct. 18 — courtesy of the Pritzker Organization and didn’t report either on his financial disclosure report (see p. 3, item no. 10, where “Italy” should have at least been mentioned).

In addition to requesting a disclosure amendment, assuming the flights flew, we now question Breyer’s decision to list his Pritzker-sponsored trips each year as reimbursements rather than gifts, since his participation with the organization, principally as a Pritzker Prize juror, was not an extension of his official duties or in the service of civic education, making them more like a gift. We have asked the Court for comment but to date have just received an acknowledgement of receipt.

In terms of other interesting tidbits, there’s the fact that a State Department official acknowledges “new protocols” in July 2022 email (p. 4). That may be a reflection of a security review the Court did following the leak of the Dobbs draft that spring.

That Justice Sotomayor was scheduled to meet with Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo during her Jan. 2024 visit there is new information. Cortizo was in his last few months in office, as Panamanian presidents can’t serve consecutive terms.

Finally, a rare dollar amount is included in the documents. On the last page (p. 79), we see that the cost of Sotomayor’s security detail in Panama is estimated at $24,210, which includes costs for embassy-based regional security officers, both Americans and locals, as well as some embassy expenses, like hotels and “motorpool.”