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Roberts breaks silence amid Thomas mess

Roberts said Congress has no business interfering in Supreme Court ethics

Salon

Chief justice says US supreme court keeps ‘highest standards’ of conduct

John Roberts speaks on same day lawyers for Harlan Crow decline to cooperate with Senate judiciary committee over gifts scandal

The Guardian - US

Clarence Thomas should resign from the supreme court, for the good of the court

By acting as if Thomas has done nothing wrong, chief justice John Roberts looks pathetic and enabling of unethical behavior

The Guardian - US

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Chief Justice Roberts says Supreme Court can do more on ethics, but offers no specifics

Chief Justice John Roberts says there is more the Supreme Court can do to “adhere to the highest standards” of ethical conduct

The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis teases 2024 bid as he makes subtle dig at Trump and vows to ‘protect faith and family’

Florida governor says he hopes to impose ‘7-2 conservative majority on the Supreme Court that would last a quarter century’

The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis boasts about ‘quarter century’ of 7-2 conservative Supreme Court majority if he wins in 2024

The prospective Republican presidential candidate says ‘It is possible that in those eight years, we have the opportunity to fortify justices’

The Independent UK

DeSantis envisions ‘quarter-century’ of far-right majority in the supreme court

Speaking to Christian media, the Florida governor suggested a 7-2 conservative majority in the high court if he is elected president

The Guardian - US

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Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith: Supreme Court rules for income streams over artistic freedom

The Supreme Court has made it more difficult to quote from existing imagery, music and text, and harder to critique society by borrowing and amplifying others’ works.

The Conversation

The Supreme Court and 'The Shadow Docket'

A relative rarity until the Trump administration, in just four years, his Trump Justice Department asked the court for emergency relief an astounding 41 times.

WEKU

Is drawing a voting map that helps a political party illegal? Only in some states

A North Carolina court's unusual ruling has highlighted the fact that some states allow voting districts to be drawn in ways that make elections less competitive and help one political party win.

WEKU

New Temple Bar restaurant Crackbrgr bringing together two revived Dublin favourites under one roof

The new restaurant is brought to us by the same person who co-owned Crackbird and Jo'Burger.

Dublin Live

SCOTUS to rule on religion at work

Ruling could have the effect of elevating the rights of religious workers at the expense of co-workers

Salon

Co-workers could bear costs of accommodating religious employees in the workplace if Supreme Court tosses out 46-year-old precedent

The Supreme Court may soon transform the role of faith in the workplace, which could have the effect of elevating the rights of religious workers at the expense of co-workers.

The Conversation

Will Separation of Powers Doom Biden's Student Debt Plan?

Biden v. Nebraska has far-reaching implications for presidential power.

Reason

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Senate Democrats demand more details from Harlan Crow on gifts to Justice Thomas

Top Senate Democrats are pushing for new disclosures from a wealthy GOP donor with ties to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

The Guardian - US

US ethics watchdog calls on Clarence Thomas to resign over undisclosed gifts

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington says supreme court justice should resign over mega-donor gifts scandal

The Independent UK

Senate Judiciary Chair says Clarence Thomas revelations ‘just get worse’ as committee probes ethical concerns

Last week, the Senate Judicary Committee held a hearing regarding ethics on the Supreme Court

WEKU

What to know about the Supreme Court and ethical concerns

Revelations continue to emerge about Supreme Court justices and lavish trips, private school tuition and more. The growing list of these nondisclosures is causing some to question court ethics.

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Salon

Thomas payments mark a tipping point

Unfortunately that leaves us with only one option — and it is extremely unlikely

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas let a GOP donor pay family member’s tuition

GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, who paid for luxury vacations for Clarence Thomas and his wife, also paid the private school tuition for a great-nephew of the justice, who raised the boy. The payments were not disclosed.

The Independent UK

Justice Clarence Thomas let GOP donor pay tuition: Report

A Republican donor paid two years of private school tuition for a child raised by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and Thomas didn't disclose the payments

Salon

Dems call for action after Thomas report

It was recently reported that Thomas' benefactor Harlan Crow also paid for the private school of Thomas' relative

The Guardian - US

Clarence Thomas: mega-donor paid for great-nephew’s private school

Supreme court justice did not declare Republican Harlan Crow’s support for schooling of boy Thomas raised ‘as a son’

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court ethics hearings face tough, but necessary, road to reform

The hearings, led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, began this week and are perhaps the only vehicle, at this stage, to leverage public pressure that could lead to an ethics code for the nation’s highest court.

Chicago Sun-Times

Senate Democrats’ effort to overhaul Supreme Court ethics faces GOP opposition

Democrats hope to strengthen ethics rules governing the nine justices in the wake of reports that Justice Clarence Thomas accepted expensive vacations from a GOP donor.

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