A team of ProPublica reporters earlier this year began looking into the travel of various Supreme Court justices, not entirely sure what they would find, if anything.
But their editors encouraged the team to keep working the story, Justin Elliott, a member of the reporting team, told me by phone on Thursday.
“The progress was gratifyingly steady,” Elliot told me, cautioning, however, that “it was not easy.”Easy or not, the final product that published on Thursday morning was unquestionably worth the effort.
“These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures,” the ProPublica team wrote.
“From my perspective as a reporter,” Elliott told me, “I feel so lucky to have the reporting resources and time resources to do a heavy lift like this.