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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

Residential Hotels Got Contracts Under the Los Angeles Mayor’s Homelessness Program Despite Violations

A city law sought to prevent low-cost housing from turning into hotels, but some landlords rented to tourists anyway. That didn’t stop them from receiving city funds for a new temporary shelter program.

Capital & Main

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

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US supreme court announces ethics code amid pressure over gift scandals

Code of conduct published following months of criticism of rightwing justices accepting undisclosed gifts

The Guardian - US

Illinois Youth Lockup Is 'No Place for Children,' According to ACLU Lawsuit

Children held in the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center are routinely subjected to solitary confinement, inadequate meals, and filthy cells, according to legal documents.

Reason

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

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.

Roll Call

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The billion-dollar salmon vacuum

Many endorse opening dams and letting fish coast the natural current as the best way to avoid extinction

Salon

Director Raoul Peck Explores the Crisis of Black Land Loss

New documentary Silver Dollar Road tells the story of massive Black wealth taken through faulty laws and loopholes.

Capital & Main

Here’s what happens when a for-profit company takes over your local ER

Costs are slashed, entire departments of doctors are laid off, and patients’ bills go up. I would know

The Guardian - US

‘It was always about land’: film-maker Raoul Peck on his infuriating new documentary

The Oscar-nominated director tackles a shocking case of black land disposession in his acclaimed new film Silver Dollar Road

The Guardian - US

"Silver Dollar Road": A family's fight

Salon talks to the director about his new film documenting a North Carolina family's struggle to keep their home

Salon

Amy Coney Barrett says she supports an ethics code for Supreme Court justices

Several justices have faced ethics questions in recent months, but the Supreme Court has so far resisted imposing a code of ethics.

WEKU

Why Microsoft got a $29 billion tax bill from the IRS

In the largest tax audit in U.S. history, the IRS rejected Microsoft’s efforts to assign profits to a small factory in Puerto Rico.

Fortune

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Ex-IRS contractor pleads guilty in leak of tax return information of Trump, wealthy people

A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about former President Donald Trump and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people pleaded guilty Thursday in an agreement with prosecutors

Salon

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

Salon

Cop resistance undercuts justice reform

Police unions labeled DAs soft on crime while lawmakers made legislative efforts to remove them from office

Salon

Clyburn key figure in racist map case

Clyburn says GOP trying to blame him for “unconstitutional racial gerrymander"

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One nation on two divergent paths

Joe Biden and Donald Trump offer two very different lessons about America

Salon

Thomas' Koch trip undermines his defense

“Even using Thomas’ flawed logic... there’s no way this chartered flight fits into that exception," expert says

Salon

Big Pharma slowed vaccine development

A vaccine against tuberculosis has never been closer to reality. But development slowed due to corporate interests

Capital & Main

‘A Setup for Disaster’: California Legislation Requiring Companies to Pay for Oil and Gas Well Cleanup in Limbo

The bill, which awaits a decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom, follows ProPublica’s reporting on the multibillion-dollar cost to clean up California’s oil and gas industry and the exodus of major companies shifting ownership of thousands of aging wells.

The Guardian - US

US centrist group No Labels accuses Democrats of waging ‘war’ against it

In an open letter, the leaders of the group allege the Democratic National Committee is taking away people’s choice in 2024 election

Reason

Brickbat: Still Waiting

Massachusetts has 184,000 people on a waiting list for the state's 41,500 subsidized apartments. But an investigation by WBUR and ProPublica found nearly 2,300 of those state-funded apartments are vacant. Almost 1,800 of the apartments have been vacant for more than 60 days. And about 730 units have been empty…

Reason

The IRS Sprang a Leak

Plus: Donald Trump's creative accounting, those sneaky vegans, brain drain, and more...

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