July 09, 2024
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PODCAST: RDP's Vishal Shankar Talks SCOTUS Chevron Ruling On KALW's Your Call
RDP’s Vishal Shankar joined KALW’s Your Call to discuss the Supreme Court’s overturning of Chevron deference and the right-wing Big Money interests that lobbied for the ruling.
June 27, 2024 | The American Prospect
On Debate Night, Highlight How These Presidents Ran the Executive Branch
As election season heats up, it’s critical for reporters and editors to pair fresh coverage with clear reminders of the candidates’ records of administering the executive branch. An honest representation of these records would show how Trump and his hand-picked leadership treated the federal government as either their personal fief or a conduit for institutionalizing corporate interests.
June 27, 2024
Amicus Spotlight: SEC v. Jarkesy
Thirteen right-wing groups linked to court-whisperers like Leonard Leo and Charles Koch urged SCOTUS to weaken our top financial regulator.
June 24, 2024
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RELEASE: New Memos Detail The Trump Administration’s Troubling Stewardship of the Federal Executive Branch
The memos, which cover a broad range of themes, including disaster and emergency management, labor, housing, transportation, financial regulation and more, highlight the myriad ways the former president and his cast of conflicted appointees prioritized corporate interests while jeopardizing the health, safety and wellbeing of the American people.
June 12, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
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Utilities Doubling Down On Fossil Fuels? That’s A Junk Fee!
In late May, Brian Deese, the former director of President Biden’s National Economic Council and current MIT fellow, wrote about “The Next Front in the War Against Climate Change” for The Atlantic. Deese explained that while the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives have stimulated clean energy demand “beyond my wildest hopes,” he still finds himself “lying awake at night, worried that America could still fail to meet its climate goals.”
June 12, 2024
Amicus Spotlight: Loper Bright & Relentless
21 right-wing groups linked to court-whisperers want SCOTUS to make its most dangerous regulatory power grab yet.
June 12, 2024
Amicus Spotlight: Moore v. United States
A dozen court whisperer-backed groups and MSNBC superstar Neal Katyal want SCOTUS to make wealth taxes illegal.
May 08, 2024 | The Nation
The Right's Partners In Weaponized Policymaking
How Jim Demint’s think-tank network is setting the stage for a second Trump term.
May 02, 2024 | The American Prospect
Covering the Friends of the Court
The Supreme Court’s corruption scandals will not soon be forgotten, but many already fail to appreciate their full implications.
May 01, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Merrick Garland’s Delay May Mean Justice Denied
Last week, the Supreme Court mulled over whether the former president (the “very stable genius” who pushed a “miracle cure” for COVID later tied to 17,000 avoidable deaths) should be prescribed his own miracle cure: presidential immunity for the crimes he is charged with committing while in office.
April 29, 2024 | The American Prospect
The VA Bows to the Dialysis Duopoly
Despite contracting rules in place to give veterans safe and affordable access to dialysis, DaVita and Fresenius are picking up most of the patients.
April 24, 2024
Amicus Spotlight: Moyle v. U.S.
Right-wing court-whisperers are pushing SCOTUS to allow states to ban abortions even in cases of severe medical emergencies.
April 23, 2024
Amicus Spotlight: Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney
Right-wing groups linked to Charles Koch and Leonard Leo are backing Starbucks’ assault on the National Labor Relations Board.
April 22, 2024
Amicus Spotlight: City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson
An unholy coalition of right-wingers and California Democrats wants the Supreme Court to eviscerate the rights of homeless people.
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.