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A new analysis suggests that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gained as much as $2.9 million in assets from growth in stocks relating to the oil and gas industry over the course of the past two decades.

The analysis from the nonprofit watchdog group Court Accountability found that Alito’s assets (not including his personal housing properties) expanded by between $3.4 million and as much as $8.4 million between 2005 and 2024. Between $390,000 and $2.9 million of that growth was from companies involved in oil and gas extraction, the report noted.

Supreme Court justices are supposed to recuse themselves from cases if they have a direct interest in the outcome. (Members of the court decide for themselves whether recusal is warranted, without any body or other justices overseeing the process.) Even with the minimum possible figure earned by Alito during that time, the outcome of cases relating to the fossil fuel industry could have significant financial benefits for him.

Notably, Alito did recuse from a case involving the fossil fuel industry in the court’s last term. But it was a convenient move for him, as the case........

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