Roberts and Thomas absent from public information on justices' travel

WASHINGTON (CN) — A new report reveals that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas did not utilize the U.S. Marshals Service for their security detail for several years, limiting the public’s insight into the justices’ off-the-bench activities.

The information — or lack thereof — was uncovered by Fix the Court, an advocacy group focused on the judiciary, which obtained over 4,000 pages of USMS reports through a public records request. The documents offer new insight into the justices’ travel, a topic under scrutiny after reports of some justices’ lavish all-expense-paid vacations.

“The two justices whose comings and goings are probably of the most interest to the general public appear to be shielding some of that travel by solely availing themselves of security resources not subject to open records requests,” Gabe Roth, executive director at Fix the Court, said in a statement. “Maybe there’s an innocuous explanation for this. But given the opacity we’ve seen from the court, especially when it comes to travel, maybe there’s not.”

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