Replacing Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh would take the balance of the Court back to where it was in 1973, before Nixon decided to drive Fortas out with bogus charges. There may be a way...
The senator has long maintained that the court’s unprincipled, outcome-oriented and partisan decision-making is very much linked to the ethics problems.
It’s not just Justice Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch may have also violated ethics rules.
Congress must stand up for what’s right and consistent with American values: Legally bribed politicians and judges isn’t that...
The Supreme Court formally dismissed an appeal over Idaho’s strict abortion ban on Thursday, a day after the opinion was inadvertently posted on the court’s website.
Whatever conservative ethos of restraint there once was has vanished.
Biden threw his weight behind the court imposing a binding code of ethics—though it remains a longshot to pass.
A new ProPublica report reveals the jurist's pattern of secretly accepting luxury private jet and yacht travel from a cadre of conservative billionaire...
Politics The Roberts Court has made the current crisis of American democracy perpetual. July 24, 2024 The Trumpist justices on the Supreme Court had a very serious problem: They needed to keep their guy out of prison for trying to overthrow the government. The right-wing justices had to do this while still attempting to maintain at least a pretense of having ruled on the basis of the law and the Constitution rather than mere partisan instincts. So they settled on what they thought was a very
It isn’t a coincidence. The court is corrupt, both judicially and ethically, because of the extreme ideology six of its justices serve.
Replacing Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh would take the balance of the Court back to where it was in 1973, before Nixon decided to drive Fortas out with bogus charges. There may be a way...
A vast, lavishly funded, four-decade campaign to stack the Supreme Court with reliably indeed inalterably conservative judges is the real corruption here.
An Amy Coney Barrett court will push the US to new levels of pro-business cronyism
On a 6-3 party-line vote, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that state officials may accept “gratuities” from people who wish to reward them for their official actions, despite a federal anti-corruption statute that appears to ban such rewards.
Biden's latest reforms include a binding and enforceable code of conduct for the Supreme Court that address Thomas' controversies.
It isn’t a coincidence. The court is corrupt, both judicially and ethically, because of the extreme ideology six of its justices serve.
The whiff of corruption emanating from the U.S. Supreme Court got a lot stronger in recent days, as the traditional media continues to delve deeper into the story of how the court has been captured by far-right dark money and extremely lax oversight by...
THE SUPREME COURT on Tuesday granted bail to BRS leader K Kavitha in the corruption and money laundering cases linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
Replacing Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh would take the balance of the Court back to where it was in 1973, before Nixon decided to drive Fortas out with bogus charges. There may be a way...
A litany of naive decisions has enshrined a system in which the rot lives right out in the open.
This t-shirt has an image of the Supreme Court, but is labeled Supremely Corrupt. The Court's got some serious problems for a number of reasons, but the lack of and resistance to a code of ethics is pretty astonishing. Also available: Women's tee.
The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court.
Supreme Court conservatives continue dismantling the laws designed to combat the influence of money in politics.
Democrats have two months before they lose control of the House. It’s absolutely essential that they do everything possible to stop the cancer of “big money” and “dark money” in our politics.
With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, the radical right has completed its long and painstaking project to seize control of the Supreme Court, and to reshape constitutional law for generations to come. Barrett's elevation will give conservatives a 6-3 majority on the court and usher in a crisis...
On February 22, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Denezpi v. US to determine whether the federal government can prosecute a Navajo tribe member, Merle Denezpi, for a crime the Court of Indian Offenses of Ute Mountain Ute Agency has already convicted him of. While the normal liberal impulse i...
Joe Biden said he supported introducing term limits for Supreme Court justices.
After a week in which Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's open political bias was cast in stark relief and literally run up a flag pole, followed by revelations of massive gifts accepted by Justice Clarence Thomas, frustration with the justices' arrogant impunity has a growing number of Americans demanding that something be done. Nikole Hannah Jones, civil rights reporter for the New York Times, and Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate, discuss with Alex Wagner.
In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.
