“The Supreme Court should be the gold standard for judicial ethics,” said one reform advocate, “yet billionaires like Harlan Crow are buying the loyalty of justices one private jet flight at a time.” New reporting on Monday that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report even more private travel gifted by a Republican mega-donor sparked […]
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said the filing “won’t deter us from fully investigating the massive, secret, right-wing billionaire influence in which this court is enmired.” Right-wing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas revealed Thursday that he took three flights on the private jet of conservative billionaire Harlan Crow last year, a disclosure that came more than four months after ProPublica […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they are still working to determine the cause of a fatal crash at mile 13 of the Steese Highway near Fox that occurred on Thursday afternoon. Troopers responded to the scene after receiving a report of the rollover crash at 3:05 pm. According to the call-in, at least one person was […]
Detail of portrait of Shoshoni Chief Tendoi Demonstrating Sign Language. (Photo by Charles M. Bell, circa 1880, courtesy National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) In early September 1930, the Blackfeet Nation of Montana hosted a historic Indian Sign Language Grand Council, gathering leaders of a dozen North American Nations and language groups. The three-day […]