“It’s a giant red flag when so many representatives are beating out the S&P 500 despite the most tumultuous market in years, raising questions whether some are taking advantage of their privileged positions,” said one ethics advocate. The government watchdog Accountable.US reported Friday that a majority of incumbent members in the U.S. House of Representatives […]
“Voters have a message for Kevin McCarthy,” said one critic of the House speaker’s proposed fiscal commission: “Hands off Social Security and Medicare!” As House Republicans advance a budget proposal that one leading critic warns would “destroy Social Security as we know it,” a survey published Wednesday showed U.S. voters overwhelmingly oppose the creation of the fiscal […]
“Alito doesn’t have to come across like a drunken Paul Thomas Anderson character gleefully confessing to drinking our collective milkshakes in order to be a real-life, run-of-the-mill political villain,” quipped the founder of one ethics watchdog. Advocates for ethical government on Monday sounded the alarm on a report revealing that the wife of U.S. Supreme […]
“Crow’s secret political contributions and undisclosed gifts to Justice Thomas can be seen as two sides of the same coin, offering opportunities to exercise influence, while keeping the public in the dark about who is pulling the strings.” Harlan Crow, the billionaire GOP megadonor under scrutiny for lavishing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his relatives with high-dollar […]