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The 6/13/2000 Memorandum to Chief Justice Rehnquist: "Compensation Increase for Justices—Response to Justice Thomas—Guidance Needed"

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Reason

Clarence Thomas reportedly raised prospect of resigning from Supreme Court over salary

Years before Clarence Thomas accepted lavish gifts, he suggested lawmakers raise Supreme Court justices’ salaries

The Independent UK

Clarence Thomas' money woes revealed

Thomas pushed for higher salary — and to allow Supreme Court justices to take speaking fees

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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

The Guardian - US

Democrats call for Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Trump’s SCOTUS hearing on presidential immunity

Mr Thomas’s wife, Ginni, accused Joe Biden and ‘the left’ of attempting the ‘greatest Heist of our History’

The Independent UK

Clarence Thomas pressured to recuse himself from Trump immunity case

Senate Democrats argue justice poses potential conflict of interest because his wife has previously supported Trump’s election lies

The Guardian - US

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The Supreme Court rejects an appeal over bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children

The Supreme Court has refused to take up a case about whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children

The Independent UK

High Court, in declining to weigh conversion therapy ban, allows law to stand

In doing so, the court left standing a lower court decision that upheld the state's ban on a therapy that the American Medical Association says "is not based on medical and scientific evidence."

WEKU

Supreme Court dismisses disability rights case as moot

Original question presented in the case Acheson Hotels LLC v Laufer had potential to limit lawsuits challenging accessibility

The Independent UK

Texas GOP wars with itself over Nazis

Texas Republicans called it "Marxist" to bar members from associating with Holocaust deniers

Salon

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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Roll Call

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.

Reason

Do You Still Have the Right to a Jury Trial?

The Supreme Court will consider whether federal agencies’ administrative judges violate the Seventh Amendment.

Roll Call

Race in open California district could be pivotal to House control - Roll Call

In the 47th District, Democrats are defending an open seat in California's Orange County, a onetime GOP stronghold that rejected Trump.

Reason

The 4th Circuit Says Maryland's Handgun Licensing Law Is Unconstitutional

Before buying a handgun, residents had to obtain a "qualification license," which could take up to 30 days.

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Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. Supreme Court’s new code of conduct is too little, too late

Lacking both enforcement and the weight of law, the new code is both useless and toothless.

Salon

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

SCOTUS ethics code is "peak gaslighting"

"Without any kind of enforcement mechanism, this has all the heft of a set of New Year's resolutions," expert says

Reason

Supreme Court Adopts Ethics Code

The provisions seem sensible, though there are legitimate concerns about enforcement.

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

The Guardian - US

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

Roll Call

Supreme Court announces new ethics code - Roll Call

The Supreme Court published a new code of conduct for its justices Monday amid a congressional effort to impose one on the high court.

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