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Just a little more pork in the pie
To grease the wheel!
As Kyl mentioned, several Supreme Court justices have reported on their financial disclosure forms receiving such free memberships, including Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.'s membership in the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., valued at $12,000 in 2006 (though he said he only used it once for dining.) Four justices -- Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- reported honorary memberships in the University Club in D.C., which they valued at $3,200 or less.
Legal Times reported on the club memberships in May, and noted that the Judicial Conference objected to an earlier version of Kyl's amendment. That version would have banned gifts of all kinds of honorary memberships -- including bar associations, inns of court and other historical and civic organizations. In a letter to the Senate in January, the conference said the language
