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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 7, 2022

A congressionally mandated online database of federal judges’ financial disclosure reports, detailing their assets and stock trades, is now live, Reuters reports. President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan bill into law in May with the goal of making it easier for the public to see if judges have a financial conflict of interest that would warrant recusal from hearing a case. Registered database users now are able to search for, sort, view and download judges’ reports. U.S. District Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, said the database will initially contain 2021 financial disclosure reports and periodic transaction reports detailing stock trades.