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Today, the Supreme Court allowed a purge of Virginia voters identified as non-citizens to go through, even though many who will be removed from the voter rolls are known to be citizens. This sort of purge is explicitly barred by the National Voter Registration Act, but the Court’s right-wing justices nonetheless allowed it to continue—raising questions about their motives.
In response to the decision, Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser released the following statement:
“In any election-related cases, we should question the impartiality of Clarence Thomas, whose wife tried to overturn the 2020 election, and Samuel Alito, who had two Jan. 6-supporting flags flying at his homes.
“This shadow docket decision is horrifying on the merits—but even more so if Thomas and Alito took part in it despite the fact that their impartiality can be reasonably questioned.”
The Revolving Door Project—along with Take Back the Court, True North Research, and Court Accountability—has been tracking conflicts of interest at the Supreme Court. Our groups have created SupremeTransparency.org, a resource that connects organizations that lobby the Court through amicus briefs to the right-wing powerbrokers who have been front-and-center in the Court’s ethics scandals.
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