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Partisanship Is Muddling the Important Debate Over Supreme Court Ethics

Ethics allegations have been raised against Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Sonia Sotomayor. Both sides have retreated into whataboutism.

Reason

Alito's SCOTUS corruption starts a fire

How the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision made climate change worse

Salon

Progressives Should Be Grateful For President Trump's Not-So-Conservative SCOTUS Picks

Recently, Ron DeSantis, the Governor of Florida and GOP presidential candidate, offered a mild criticism of President Trump's three Supreme Court nominees. "I respect the three [Trump] appointees," DeSantis said, "but none of those three are at the same level of Justice Thomas and Justice Alito." DeSantis is not wrong.…

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The Dwindling Jewish Representation And Evolving Composition Of The U.S. Supreme Court

Diversity on the Supreme Court: A changing landscape of justices from all backgrounds and walks of life.

Zenger

What ethical controversies are US supreme court justices facing?

Ethical concerns are swirling around the nation’s highest court, centering on Clarence Thomas and other conservative justices

The Guardian - US

The US supreme court has hijacked American democracy

The court has vastly overextended its own power and flaunted its corruption. It will take a political movement to stop them

The Guardian - US

Ethics reform not enough to restore public confidence in partisan Supreme Court

Our nation seems stuck with a court that is selectively responsive to the arguments and interests of only some Americans — those on the right.

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Justices teach when the Supreme Court isn't in session. It can double as an all-expenses-paid trip

Teaching is encouraged as a way to demystify the Supreme Court while exposing the justices to a cross-section of the public

The Independent UK

US supreme court: Clarence Thomas reportedly accepted more undisclosed gifts as calls for reform grow – as it happened

Media reports say justice has benefited from being part of elite, wealthy circle; campaigners to call on Congress calling for corruption investigation

The Guardian - US

US supreme court ethics: chief justice urged to testify for ‘good of democracy’

Ro Khanna of California wants John Roberts’ account of controversies besetting the ‘out of touch’ court

The Guardian - US

First Thing: ‘Climate change is out of control’, UN says

The average global air temperature hit new heights this week. Plus, new Twitter rules restrict US weather service

The Guardian - UK

Key Democrat attacks US supreme court chief justice over ethics scandal

Dick Durbin, chair of Senate judiciary committee, condemns John Roberts for failure to reform court as donor controversy swirls

The Guardian - US

Commentary: The one ethics rule the Supreme Court needs before its next term

The Supreme Court may be beginning its summer recess, but the furor over the justices’ ethical lapses is still gathering steam. We now know that both Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have gone on lavish vacations with court litigants without disclosing the trips or recusing themselves from their benefactors’…

Tribune News Service

US Supreme court continues conservative lurch in recent decisions

Analysts say trust in the US’s highest court is wavering as a conservative supermajority reshapes constitutional law.

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Axios

Supreme Court ideology continues to lean conservative, new data shows

After overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, the court continued to push American law to the right.

The Guardian - US

US supreme court ‘creeping dangerously towards authoritarianism’, AOC says

Congresswoman’s comments come days after nation’s highest court released batch of incendiary and far-reaching rulings

Axios

The Supreme Court’s apolitical image is all but dead

The justices tried for a very long time to cultivate a perception that they existed on an elevated plane above elected politicians.

The Guardian - US

A conservative overhaul of public life: what the supreme court’s term means for the US

Despite early moderate rulings, this term will be remembered for booming decisions on race, LGBTQ+ rights and student debt

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The Independent UK

The Supreme Court just issued its biggest rulings of the year. Here's what you need to know.

The Supreme Court just finished issuing its biggest decisions of the term

The Independent UK

Supreme Court lets stand ruling that protects people with gender dysphoria under disability law

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a first-of-its-kind ruling from a federal appeals court that found people with gender dysphoria are entitled to the protections of the Americans With Disabilities Act

Reason

Supreme Court Clarifies 'Undue Hardship' Standard for Religious Accommodations in the Workplace

Plus: Perspectives on the affirmative action ruling, how U.S. policy is thwarting Cuban capitalists, and more...

Salon

SCOTUS term tainted by clear corruption

Seductions of wealth don’t necessitate a quid pro quo

WEKU

Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and the crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court

The problem for the justices is that all the recent ethics stories — and more — are a corrosive drip, drip, drip, eroding public confidence in the court.

Salon

Alito linked to Moore v. Harper law firm

Alito has a close relationship with Charles Cooper, whose law firm is representing petitioners in the pivotal case

Tribune News Service

Noah Feldman: The Supreme Court just stood up for electoral democracy

In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court firmly rejected the so-called independent state legislature theory. This bizarre theory would have allowed renegade legislators to violate their state constitutions in setting rules for federal elections — allowing them to hijack elections for U.S. Congress and even the presidency.

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