“This is exactly the type of situation that an ethics code that included vetting of transactions and full disclosure would clear up,” the head of the watchdog Accountable.US asserted. As calls grow for the impeachment or resignation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over undisclosed gifts from a billionaire Republican megadonor, one of his right-wing colleagues […]
“If only there had been some warning signs about Kavanaugh’s dishonesty,” quipped another advocacy group. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a self-styled moderate who postures as a defender of reproductive rights, has said repeatedly in recent years that she would not support a Supreme Court nominee who demonstrates “hostility” to Roe v. Wade. But late Monday, Politico reported that right-wing Justices […]
Fourteen months after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court again has its full bench of nine justices with the swearing-in Monday of Neil Gorsuch. The new justice took two legally required oaths at separate ceremonies. The first was administered by Chief Justice John Roberts in private at the Supreme Court. Later, […]