No gifts. Three reimbursements. And a paltry, five-figure book advance.

Justice Alito’s 2025 financial disclosure report was posted today in the judiciary’s online database, and despite his annual decision to file after taking an extension, which gives him his own news cycle, there was little newsworthy to report on this year.

As we’ve written before, what makes the report noteworthy is that Alito filed it at all. Three years after he told the Wall Street Journal that “[n]o provision in the Constitution gives [Congress] the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period,” the jurist complied with Congress’ authority under Article I, as carried out by the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, to regulate the Supreme Court. That the report was posted online is thanks to a law Congress passed in 2022.

Disclosure highlights:
Alito reported receiving $33,000 in book advances from Hachette Book Group for So Ordered, which is due out Oct. 6. This is likely not the total advance but a portion of it (say, one-third or one-sixth) that was paid to Alito pre-publication.

This brings the total amount the current justices have received in book advances and royalties to $13,071,336.

Alito reported receiving no gifts valued at $480 or greater in 2025, and FTC’s SCOTUS gifts tracker tracker also includes no gifts for Alito last year. (The gift-reporting threshold for 2026-2028 was raised to $525.)

Alito was reimbursed for three trips: one to Scottsdale, Ariz., in January to speak at the Justice O’Connor Prize dinner; one to Rome in September, paid for by The Mentor Group, to participate in the EU-US Economic Affairs Forum; and one to the U.K. in October, paid for by the Association of Marshall Scholars and the American College of Trial Lawyers, to participate in the Marshall Forum on the Rule of Law, which Justice Breyer also attended.

Alito visited the Vatican while he was in Rome; he and his wife met the pope, and the justice gave a talk at the Vatican’s judicial headquarters.

That this doesn’t appear on the disclosure presumes he either paid for transportation himself or, more likely, that diplomatic security arranged the visit. If it’s the latter, we’d expect to see details of that in a future FOIA we’d file with the State Department, akin to this request.

Stock ownership and recusals:
Alito reported no new stock purchases in 2025, though he did sell all of his Boeing shares and received shares in Qnity Electronics Corp., which spun off from DuPont.

Alito remains the leader in SCOTUS stock ownership, holding a stake in 28 companies at the end of last year.

Alito recused 34 times in 2025, 33 times at the cert. stage and once at the merits stage in Oklahoma v. EPA. Of the 34 recusals, 27 were due to his stock ownership and seven were for other reasons (named in petition, two recusals; prior work, two; other financial conflict, two; unknown reason, one [Baker v. Coates]).

So far in 2026, that number stands at 15: 14 at the cert. stage and one at the merits stage (Chevron v. Plaquemines Parish). Of the 15 recusals, 13 were due to his stock ownership, and two were for other reasons (both named-in-petition recusals).

The only other justice to own individual stocks is Chief Justice Roberts, who holds shares in two companies, and Roberts’ most recent stock-based recusal occurred in 2021.

This is the 15th year in a row that Alito opted to take the allowable 90-day extension.