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Louisiana senator cosigned a letter calling for justices to disclose a decade of travel records Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.) / Getty Images Kevin Daley • June 9, 2021 2:20 pm
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Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.) signed on to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D., R.I.) request for Supreme Court justices travel records, giving bipartisan credentials to Whitehouse’s latest attempt to attack the Court’s conservatives.
Whitehouse and Kennedy sent the letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the director of the U.S. Marshals Service, which requests all agency documents related to trips on which Marshals Service personnel accompanied the justices over a 10-year period. The justices are supposed to disclose reimbursed travel, but their reporting has been spotty at times.
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The Center for Media and Democracy s president, Lisa Graves, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary s Subcommittee on Federal Courts on March 10, 2021 in a hearing titled, What s Wrong with the Supreme Court: The Big-Money Assault on Our Judiciary.
Ms. Graves testimony detailed how the federal judicial selection process has been manipulated by special interest groups that have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into sophisticated campaigns to influence judicial nominations, judicial decisions, and judges themselves with very little transparency about who is funding such campaigns.
Her testimony highlighted the exceptional role that Leonard Leo s dark money network played in selecting Trump s 234 federal court nominees including three Justices given lifetime seats on the Supreme Court and underscored the urgent need for disclosure reforms like those contained in the For the People Act, the newly reintroduced DISCLOSE Act, the AMICUS Act, and the Jud
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The crusade against so-called “dark money” has historically largely targeted right-of-center donors and was most recently demonstrated in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings led by Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, pointedly titled “What’s Wrong with the Supreme Court: The Big-Money Assault on Our Judiciary.” But in a superb piece of original reporting this week,
The New York Times lifted the veil on what it is hard to resist calling left-wing opaque funding, led by Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who is a leading bidder to purchase Tribune Publishing, which includes such newspapers as
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