December 21, 2023
Bitnomial CEO Cheers After Disturbing Day at CFTC
Dissenting Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero, meanwhile, warned that the agency’s approval of a vertically integrated crypto market threatens to open a Pandora’s box.
December 21, 2023
You're A Mean One, Mr. DeJoy
How the Grinchmaster General stole Christmas (and how to get it back).
December 18, 2023
INTERVIEW: RDP's Jeff Hauser On The American Prospect's Holiday Telethon
RDP Founder and Executive Director Jeff Hauser joined The American Prospect’s Holiday Telethon to discuss airline regulation, ethics and good governance, and more.
December 14, 2023 | The American Prospect
Kenny Stancil Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Op-Ed Ethics in GovernmentFederal ReserveFinancial RegulationIndependent Agencies
Corporate Headhunters Shouldn’t Control Who Can Be a Fed Reserve Bank President
We need a democratic process for appointing leaders of regional Fed banks.
December 09, 2023
PODCAST: RDP's Vishal Shankar Talks DeJoy, USPS On The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
RDP Senior Researcher Vishal Shankar joins the Ralph Nader Radio Hour to discuss Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s ongoing sabotage of the Postal Service.
December 07, 2023 | The American Prospect
Wall Street’s Favorite Financial Regulator May Be Looking for a New Job
CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam’s term doesn’t end until 2026, but there are rumblings of an early exit to the private sector. Place your bets where he’ll end up next!
December 07, 2023
Henry Burke Jeff Hauser Kenny Stancil
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Press Release: The Revolving Door Project, A Government Ethics Watchdog, Alerts Media Of Possibility That CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam Is Considering Leaving Government To Cash Out In Private Industry
The Revolving Door Project, A Government Ethics Watchdog, Alerts Media Of Possibility That CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam Is Considering Leaving Government To Cash Out In Private Industry
December 06, 2023 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
The “Billionaire Matchmaker” and his Bad Amici
How does one right-wing activist get his worst ideas to appear in the legal decisions of the most powerful judges in America? A bombshell Politico investigation this week has the answers on how rightwing activist and “billionaire matchmaker” Leonard Leo managed to influence the outcome of several of the Supreme Court’s highest-profile and most damaging decisions over the past two years.
November 30, 2023
Henry Kissinger: A War Criminal and Normalizer of Corruption
“It pales in comparison to the millions of deaths he was responsible for,” progressive foreign policy expert Matt Duss observed Thursday, “but Kissinger was also a pioneer in the normalization of corruption.”
November 20, 2023
In Stop Cop City RICO Prosecutions, Chris Carr Shows His Office Is For Sale
On November 7th, Atlanta saw nearly 60 people arraigned on an assortment of charges, including racketeering. The arraignment is the next step in the legal process begun last month when Georgia’s Republican State Attorney General Chris Carr filed racketeering charges against 61 people, most of whom were or are associated with the 2020 George Floyd protests in Atlanta and/or the Stop Cop City movement in the city.
November 17, 2023 | The American Prospect
The Supreme Court’s Objectivity Theater
The Court wrote a new ethics code for itself. It’s all but meaningless.
November 13, 2023
RELEASE: New SCOTUS “Ethics Code” Is A Toothless PR Stunt
Today’s so-called Supreme Court `Code of Conduct’ comes with no enforcement mechanism. This unenforceable public relations document serves absolutely no purpose other than to permit the media to revert to pretending that our unaccountable and unethical Supreme Court retains legitimacy.
October 16, 2023
Letter To Judge Freeman Calling For Recusal
On October 16, the Revolving Door Project sent a letter to Judge Beth Labson Freeman calling for her recusal in NetChoice, LLC v. Bonta. Judge Freeman granted a preliminary injunction to prevent California from enforcing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA), which regulates platforms that target content to children.
October 13, 2023
RELEASE: JUDGE INVESTED IN BIG TECH SHOULD NOT DECIDE ON CONSTITUTIONALITY OF LAW THAT BIG TECH LOBBIED AGAINST
October 04, 2023 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
“This Fish Stinks From The Head”
It’s been an eventful week, to say the least. We have a smattering of political updates to share, many of them rooted in the ongoing saga of MAGA-led obstruction of government function. But first, we want to address an instance of overt violence spurred by Trump’s hate-filled rhetoric.