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April 24, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
National Small Business Week 2024
This Sunday marks the start of National Small Business Week (NSBW). Hosted by the Small Business Administration (SBA), NSBW is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions that small businesses make to both the economy and our communities. It also allows Biden and his surrogates to go on a press tour touting his achievements in helping small businesses compete in an economy increasingly characterized by corporate consolidation.
Yet, once again, the Small Business Administration is squandering the potential of its signature event by partnering with the very same monopolistic corporations that Biden’s antitrust enforcers are fighting in the courts.
April 19, 2024
New Website Takes a Closer Look at Friends of the Court
The SCOTUS Justices’ billionaire benefactors have an oft-overlooked means of peddling influence: amicus briefs.
April 17, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
The FAA and Flights of Financial Folly
Boeing Won’t Self Regulate; We Can’t Keep Trusting Them To
April 10, 2024
Despite Populist Appeals to the Unfair Impact of Student Debt, Biden Still Won’t Name a Villain
On Monday, President Biden presented a new student loan debt relief plan at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin, as surrogates (Vice President Harris and Education Secretary Cardona) simultaneously spoke about the plan in other battleground states.
April 03, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Who’s Afraid of the “Deep State”?
Show me a politician rabble-rousing about “unelected bureaucrats” running the country, and I’ll show you someone who wants those bureaucrats to be serving their interests, not the country’s. Show me a company crying foul about government overreach, and I’ll show you a company trying to get away with—in some cases, literally—murder.
March 27, 2024
A Win For PFAS And A Loss For The IRS
We focus on the under the radar impacts of corporate control of the Fifth Circuit and Congressional Republicans.
March 20, 2024
The Next Frontier Of Corporate Polluting: Hydrogen
The corporate polluters are at it again with a new push for “clean energy”—and against government safeguards to ensure that it’s clean.
March 13, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Meet Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen
Montana’s top legal officer is flying under the national radar, but his scandals and policy agenda mirror his more infamous peers.
March 08, 2024
HackwatchNewsletter 2024 ElectionAnti-MonopolyCatherine RampellConsumer ProtectionDepartment of JusticeDepartment of TransportationFTCHousing
A Decade-Long Week And SOTU Thoughts
This week’s Hack Watch recaps some economic stories you may have missed, plus our initial reaction to Biden’s big speech.
March 06, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Throwing the Public’s Defenders Under the (Mini)Bus
By Friday, Congress needs to vote on a proposed “minibus”—a package of six out of the 12 necessary government spending bills for fiscal year 2024—to avoid a partial government shutdown. We’ve got a handy explainer of all the federal budget terms you wish you didn’t need to know, from “minibus” to “poison pill” to the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, which is the reason why our country’s grotesque military budget is getting a $26 billion boost up to $886 billion, while non-defense spending is getting a $4 billion cut, down to $773 billion.
While there are plenty of damning narratives to derive from the latest in government appropriations dysfunction, there is one story in particular that we’re anxious to see told by the White House and Congressional Democrats, and it’s this…
February 28, 2024
Government Shutdown Threats Allow GOP to Signal to Corporate Cronies It’s Open Season on Consumers
We’re staring down a familiar deadline this week: On Friday, if Congress doesn’t pass a spending bill, we’ll enter a partial government shutdown. And if they pass a short term continuing resolution… we’ll have just kicked the can a few weeks down the increasingly potholed (due to inadequate maintenance) road.
February 15, 2024
Julian Scoffield Vishal Shankar
Newsletter Corporate CrackdownDepartment of JusticeExecutive BranchHousing
An RDP Love Letter To Picking Fights and Good Punditry
Cracking down on corporate abuses is what government should be for.
February 07, 2024
The East Palestine Disaster One Year Later
Biden has yet to visit East Palestine but is expected to do so this month. When he does, he should denounce Norfolk Southern’s avarice from the site of the train wreck.
January 31, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
More Revolvers Join The Fight Against The Regulatory State
The regulatory authority of the executive branch is under attack, and BigLaw firms stacked with revolvers are on the front lines leading the assault. I’ve previously written about former FTC Commissioner Christine Varney challenging the legitimacy of her former employer on behalf of pharma company Illumina. Lawyers at Latham & Watkins, a firm stacked with revolvers from executive branch agencies, are before the Supreme Court challenging the Chevron Doctrine, which defers to executive agencies’ interpretations when legislative statutes are unclear. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to hold administrative proceedings hangs in the balance as we await the Supreme Court’s decision in SEC v. Jarkesy, where the Fifth Circuit’s ruling decimated the agency’s authority. In a new attack, revolvers on the labor/management relations team at Morgan Lewis & Bockius have their sights set on the plutocrats’ latest target: the National Labor Relations Board.
January 24, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Fox News Doesn’t Like Us Pointing Out Underutilized EPA Powers
You know you’re doing something right when Fox News is mad about it. So I guess we can count Fox’s vexed coverage of the coalition letter that we and 146 other organizations sent the Environmental Protection Agency last week as a sign that we’re ruffling the right feathers.