“Every single minute matters,” said the Democratic congresswoman, “and we have to use our power when we have it.” Urging Democratic lawmakers to use the power they currently hold in the U.S. Senate, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday night called on party leaders in the upper chamber to launch immediate investigations into the insurrection-linked flags that were […]
“The fact of such a political statement at your home creates, at minimum, the appearance of improper political bias.” Citing recent reporting that an inverted American flag—an alleged symbol of the “Stop the Steal” election denialism stoked by former U.S. President Donald Trump—was flown at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito following January […]
“Justice Alito was involved in an organized campaign to block congressional action with regard to a matter in which he has a personal stake,” reads the complaint filed by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse filed an ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Tuesday, accusing the right-wing judge of improperly interfering […]
“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 […]