Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that new U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister reported about $1 million in annual income on financial disclosure forms. After the story published, McAllister said that figure covered a period of nearly three years, not one. Under federal rules, the disclosure form required McAllister to report income from Jan. 1, 2016, to the day he filed the form, June, 28, 2017.

Former University of Kansas School of Law Dean Stephen McAllister was sworn in as U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas on Thursday by his former boss—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. McAllister clerked for Thomas in 1991, following a clerkship with Justice Byron White. The private ceremony was held on the University of Kansas campus.