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The DeSantis legacy: Perpetual grievance

Republican men who have power, money and status can't stop acting like they're the victims

Salon

Clarence Thomas’s salary complaints sparked rightwing fears he would resign

Supreme court justice’s comment to Republican congressman in 2000 worried conservatives, according to ProPublica report

The Guardian - US

Justice Neil Gorsuch took 10 minutes to approve Dobbs abortion opinion – report

New York Times reports conservative supreme court justice had no changes to 98-page draft of opinion that removed right to abortion

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George Santos: a creature of Congress, dark money and limitless Republican hypocrisy

The New York fabulist faces expulsion but the fault for his rise lies with Trump, McCarthy, McConnell and the supreme court

The Guardian - US

US ethics groups hail Senate subpoenas for Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow

Watchdogs applaud after Democrats vote to summon key rightwing duo to answer questions amid supreme court ethics row

The Guardian - US

Senate Judiciary authorises subpoenas of conservative activists in Supreme Court ethics probe

Thursday’s contentious hearing ended in an entirely Democratic vote after Republican members of the committee walked out

The Independent UK

John Cornyn and Ted Cruz walk out of U.S. Senate hearing as Democrats vote on Harlan Crow subpoena

The Texas Republicans opposed subpoenaing conservative donor Crow over his ties to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, casting it as a partisan attack.

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Senate Democrats authorize subpoenas related to Supreme Court ethics probe - Roll Call

The Senate Judiciary Committee moved ahead with subpoenas Thursday as part of the panel’s inquiry into Supreme Court ethics.

Roll Call

SCOTUS plays dumb about the public's ire

It's not just the useless "code of ethics" — the Dobbs decision revealed the real life impact of an imperious court

Salon

The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but it has no means of enforcement

The new rules leave compliance up to each justice. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor have been under scrutiny for gifts, benefits, travel received from outside sources.

Chicago Sun-Times

Senate Judiciary delays votes on subpoenas over Supreme Court ethics - Roll Call

The Senate Judiciary Committee abruptly adjourned Thursday without voting on whether to authorize subpoenas related to Supreme Court ethics.

Roll Call

Ohio votes on abortion rights in test of post-Roe backlash

Vote will have both political and medical consequences that go beyond Ohio as supporters of Issue 1 are cautiously optimistic

The Guardian - US

Mike Johnson, theocrat: the House speaker and a plot against America

Second-in-line to the presidency, the Republican makes claims about the constitution and Christianity, and his wish to impose his faith on others, that do not withstand serious scrutiny

The Guardian - US

Senators clash over plans for subpoenas tied to Supreme Court ethics push - Roll Call

Senate Judiciary Committee members clashed Thursday over plans to subpoena two Republican donors and a conservative judicial activist.

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Democrats plan to subpoena Leonard Leo over perks to supreme court justices

Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow will also be subpoenaed over roles in paying for gifts for Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

The Guardian - US

Blinken meets with Johnson at Capitol amid disagreement over Israel and Ukraine aid – as it happened

This blog has now closed. The secretary of state called meeting with the new House speaker ‘very positive’

Salon

Leonard Leo's strategy becomes clear

Leonard Leo helped elect a judge in Wisconsin. Without him, the GOP feared their agenda would be “toast"

Salon

MAGA legal exposed: Powell folds first

At the eleventh hour, Sidney Powell folded. Her co-defendants should be very worried with trial set to start Friday

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The man behind SCOTUS right-wing rule

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built machine that remade American legal system — and what he plans to do next

The Guardian - US

Abortion, guns, democracy: US rights at stake as supreme court term begins

As rightwing supermajority starts third term, legal experts ask how far it will go in reconfiguring the legal landscape of US

The Guardian - US

Rightwing activist helps fund ‘predatory payday lenders’ in supreme court case

Watchdog group says entities backed by Leonard Leo have invested over $9m in ‘dark web’ of special interest groups

Salon

Revealed: Thomas went to Koch events

Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, helping a political network that has brought cases to SCOTUS

The Guardian - US

‘You want to think America is better’: can the supreme court be saved?

Documentarian Dawn Porter’s expansive new series Deadlocked looks back at the history of an institution that has shaped the US for better and, more recently, worse

The Guardian - US

Ginni Thomas and rightwing activists exploited supreme court ruling – report

Ahead of Citizens United decision that unleashed dark money flood, Thomas worked with Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow

The Independent UK

Justice Alito rejects Senate Democrats' call to step aside from an upcoming Supreme Court case

Justice Samuel Alito is rejecting demands from Senate Democrats that he step aside from an upcoming Supreme Court case because of his interactions with one of the lawyers, in a fresh demonstration of tensions over ethical issues

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