Query the CourtListener Financial Disclosures API to retrieve a federal judge's reported gifts, investments, and non-investment income for a given reporting period
domain: courtlistener.com · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Retrieve your API auth token from your CourtListener profile and send it as an Authorization: Token header on every request
Send a GET request to the financial-disclosures endpoint filtered by the judge's person ID to locate the disclosure record(s) covering the desired year
Query the related sub-endpoints (investments, gifts, non-investment-incomes, debts, agreements, disclosure-positions, reimbursements) filtered by the financial_disclosure ID to pull specific categories of data
Send an HTTP OPTIONS request to any endpoint to inspect field definitions and the form-based value codes used for monetary ranges
Check the redacted boolean field on each returned row to flag entries containing redactions that may warrant manual review
Paginate through results using the cursor-based next/previous links rather than assuming a single page of results
Known gotchas
Investment, debt, and gift values are often reported as form-based range codes (e.g., a code meaning $1-15,000) rather than exact dollar amounts, and the highest range code tops out at $50,000,000 because the judiciary hasn't updated the ranges in years
Rows with has_inferred_values=true mean CourtListener inferred that a blank row on the original PDF form belongs to the investment listed above it — treat these as lower-confidence than explicitly filled rows
Coverage comes from a mix of Senate records and information requests sent to the judiciary rather than a live official feed, so not every judge or every reporting year is guaranteed to be present
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