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
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 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 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.
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.
April 18, 2024
RELEASE: Watchdog Orgs And Court Reform Advocates Debut New Database Cataloging Right-Wing Groups' Amicus Briefs, Connections To SCOTUS Justices
Today, Take Back the Court, Revolving Door Project, and True North Research released a new database highlighting the troubling connections between the Supreme Court’s right-wing justices, the right-wing organizations that have weighed in on cases before the court, and the major donors funding them
April 09, 2024
RELEASE: Judge Willett’s Citigroup Stock Holdings Are Obvious Conflict Of Interest
Fifth Circuit Judge’s Participation In CFPB Late Fee Case Makes A Mockery Of Judicial Ethics
February 09, 2024 | The American Prospect
Durbin Must Enforce His SCOTUS Investigation Subpoenas
Uncovering Crow’s and Leo’s full relationships with the Court is precisely the sort of scenario for which Congress has subpoena powers in the first place. As of now, these plutocrats have been able to scoff at the will of elected leaders. Durbin’s actions, or lack thereof, will inform whether history remembers this Congress as stepping up or shrugging off one of the greatest threats to the American legal system in our lifetimes.
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.