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[Roberts] pointed to a series of stories recently in The Wall Street Journal that found that “between 2010 and 2018, 131 federal judges participated in a total of 685 matters involving companies in which they or their families owned shares of stock.”
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Federal judges and Supreme Court justices are required under a federal ethics law to recuse themselves from cases where they have a personal financial interest. Roberts is one of three justices on the nine-member Supreme Court to hold individual stocks. The other justices who own individual stocks are Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito.
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[Roberts] did note that in the instances the The Wall Street Journal identified, the paper did not find that any of the conflicts affected the judges’ actions in cases. And Roberts underscored that conflicts were identified in “less than three hundredths of one percent of the 2.5 million civil cases filed in the district courts in the nine years included in the study,” a 99.97% compliance rate.