2024 Election

November 13, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

Hannah Story Brown

Newsletter

2024 Election

Seeking Alternatives To A Sledgehammer

With anger, fear, and determination, we’re with you in this unsettled moment a week out from the election. It’s hard to predict or overstate how much may be on the brink of changing; hard to measure how much we’ve already lost, like the ‘functionally extinct’ goal of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 2.7°F, or 1.5°C. And it’s hard to know how much we may stand to gain from new visions and forms of solidarity and resistance that grow in the years to come.

October 31, 2024

Court Accountability, Revolving Door Project, Take Back the Court, and True North Research

Memo 2024 ElectionEthics in GovernmentSupreme Court

Memo: Remembering Bush v. Gore

We cannot forget the fundamental wrongheadedness of the Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore, which was possible only with the votes of at least two justices whose conflicts of interest merited recusal, one of whom reportedly “provided the early framework” for the decision before oral arguments were even presented to the Court.

October 30, 2024

Jeff Hauser

Press Release

2024 ElectionEthics in GovernmentSupreme Court

RELEASE: We Can (And Should) Reasonably Question The Impartiality Of Clarence Thomas And Samuel Alito In Election-Related Cases

On Wednesday, 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.

October 28, 2024

Jeff Hauser

Press Release

2024 ElectionCorporate Crackdown

Press Release: The Revolving Door Project on Jeff Bezos, Dan Osborn, and Harris’ Potentially Decisive Decision

Over the last few days we have seen the billionaire class brought to heel by Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos has joined the likes of Mark Zuckerberg in preemptively acquiescing to Trump’s demands, while Elon Musk has become reliant on a Trump presidency to protect him from any legal consequences resulting from his close relationship to Vladimir Putin. Conversely, a former union leader and unabashed Prairie Populist has threatened a Nebraska Republican incumbent no one had believed in any peril by centering his opposition to monopolies, billionaire influence, and greedy corporations.