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Supreme Court ethics with John Oliver

John Oliver discusses the Supreme Court, the ethically questionable gifts some of the justices receive, and an offer for Clarence Thomas that he definitely shouldn’t refuse. Once again, Oliver gets to the heart of the issue of SCOTUS ethics or lack thereof.

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ProPublica report shows long-standing ethics violations of Justice Thomas

A new bombshell report by ProPublica entitled “Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire” claims that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has long accepted but not reported lavish gifts of travel and lodging from a Republican megadonor named Harlan Crow. According to this 2022 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report entitled “A Code of Conduct for the Supreme […]

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Win for public domain information

Title 17, section 105 of the US code forbids the federal government from claiming copyright over its own publications. No such restriction exists for state governments, however, and many states have asserted copyright over things that one would think couldn’t possibly be treated as private property: legal codes, case law, the very stuff that government […]

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Reference Resource Roundup: Hearing for Supreme Court Nominee

Gary Price at InfoDocket provides a very fine list of documents and other links that provide context for this week’s hearings for Brett M. Kavanaugh, the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing for Supreme Court. Reference Resource Roundup: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing for Supreme Court Nominee, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh

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NARA embroiled in politics surrounding documents re Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh. The public loses.

I’ve been trying to get my head around the very public wrangling of the release of archival records relating to Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The National Archives (NARA) is in the process of releasing “Approximately 900,000 pages of email and paper records were requested by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Charles Grassley.” But democratic Senators Diane […]

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