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Review by Senate Democrats finds more unreported luxury trips by Clarence Thomas

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Review by Senate Democrats finds more unreported luxury trips by Clarence Thomas toggle caption Mariam Zuhaib/AP WASHINGTON — A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct. The 93-page report released Saturday by the Democratic majority …

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Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct. The 93-page report released Saturday by the Democratic majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee found additional travel taken in 2021 by Thomas but not reported …

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4 days, 4 hours ago

Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

LA Times

The Supreme Court adopted its first code of ethics in 2023, but it leaves compliance to each of the nine justices. A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct. The 93-page report released Saturday by …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Tribal leaders push Republican Tim Sheehy to apologize for comments on Native Americans

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Tribal leaders in Montana urged …

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4 months ago

FACT FOCUS: A look back at false and misleading claims made during the the Democratic convention

Hindustan Times

The Democrats' star-studded, four-day convention drew to a close as Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the party's nomination for president. Days later, asked by a reporter upon arriving in Atlanta whether he would sign a national abortion ban, Trump shook his head and said “no.” But just a month earlier Trump suggested he’d support a national ban on abortion around …

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4 months ago

FACT FOCUS: A look back at some of the questionable claims made during the Democratic convention

Associated Press

The Democrats’ star-studded, four-day convention drew to a close as Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the party’s nomination for president. Trump’s views on an abortion ban VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS said Trump would “ban medication abortion and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without Congress.” THE FACTS: While Trump has said in the past that he would support a …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Harlan Crow helped fund Swiftboating. Trump campaign continues that legacy in Walz attack

Raw Story

The year was 2004. One of Swift Boat's top donors was conservative GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire whose financial relationship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been the subject of numerous bombshell investigative reports. Last year, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington reported, "One of Crow’s first forays into large donations was …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Justice Clarence Thomas took undisclosed trip with GOP megadonor, Democratic senator finds

LA Times

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional travel on GOP megadonor Harlan Crow’s private jet, said a top Democratic senator Monday. Thomas and his wife, Virginia, took a round-trip flight between Hawaii and New Zealand in November 2010, according to international flight records maintained by Customs and Border Protection, according to Sen. Ron Wyden. A letter to …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Biden held disastrous rambling Zoom call with Democratic lawmakers and lost his train of thought multiple times with 50 were ready to dump him ... an hour before Trump was shot

Daily Mail

Joe Biden held a train wreck Zoom call with Democrat lawmakers just minutes before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump – and the turmoil possibly saved the president from a flood of calls to end his re-election bid. Those on the call branded it 'tense' and 'awful' and Biden reportedly had a particularly combative exchange with Rep. Jason Crow of …

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6 months ago

Rep. Byron Donalds, his gigantic Jim Crow myth and a forgotten fact about Black voters

Raw Story

As we celebrated Juneteenth last week, a political argument is brewing about the legacy of the Jim Crow era. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively,’ Donalds told the audience Tuesday.” Critics listed a myriad of horrors from the Jim Crow era, from …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Justice Clarence Thomas took more trips paid for by donor Harlan Crow, Senate panel reveals

Associated Press

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin says his committee has uncovered at least three additional trips given to Justice Clarence Thomas by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow as part of the panel’s ethics investigation into the Supreme Court. Durbin, D-Ill., said Thursday the committee obtained information from Crow that Thomas took three trips, and at least six flights, on Crow’s private …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Jim Crow 2.0: As US elections near, new efforts to suppress Black votes

Al Jazeera

In the days and months leading up to today’s presidential primary in Georgia, activists have been on the ground in African American neighborhoods across the state working to prevent a rollback of voter rights that they say harkens back to the Jim Crow era. After record voter turnout flipped the state from deep red to barely blue in the 2020 …

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1 year ago

Jim Jordan and James Comer have a new judicial plan: Protect GOP megadonors at all costs

Raw Story

WASHINGTON – Republicans in Congress aren’t just doing all they can to impeach the Biden name – and possibly President Joe Biden himself – they’re also going to extraordinary lengths to protect two billionaire GOP megadonors who helped the party remake the Supreme Court in recent years. For one, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan and Oversight Committee Chair James …

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1 year, 5 months ago

What Is No Labels’ Plan for 2024? Wrong Question.

Slate

This is part of Two Bad, a series exploring Americans’ lackluster enthusiasm for the 2024 election and the problem of the third-party candidate. No Labels plans to run its own presidential candidate in 2024 if it decides the major parties’ nominees are, quote, “unacceptable”—a determination that it says could apply to a rematch between Biden and Donald Trump. It was …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Republicans defending Clarence Thomas have gotten nearly $500K from Harlan Crow

Salon

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have spent recent weeks fiercely defending the deep corruption on the Supreme Court in the wake of major scandals involving several conservative justices, saying that reining in the Court is "unnecessary." According to an analysis by Accountable.US, all nine of the Senate Judiciary Republicans have collectively received nearly half a million dollars in donations …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Biden should order Clarence Thomas’s cases to be reviewed

The Independent

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1 year, 8 months ago

Democratic senators urge chief justice to probe Thomas trips

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee called on U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday to open an investigation into the undisclosed acceptance of luxury trips taken by Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife that were paid for by a Republican megadonor. “We urge you to do so.” The nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica reported Thursday …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Clarence Thomas faces new impeachment calls over luxury trip gifts from GOP megadonor

The Independent

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2 years, 3 months ago

America is finally waking up to the fascist danger: Let's hope it's not too late

Salon

For the last six years or so, most Americans — especially white Americans — were in denial about the monster rampaging across the country. In the other ear were Donald Trump, the Republican fascists and their allies, assuring them that everything would be fine and good because the Trump movement was fighting for "real Americans" like them. Democratic voters say …

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3 years, 2 months ago

How higher education can win the war against neoliberalism and white supremacy

Salon

The exhaustion of the future does not even leave us with the past. Right-wing attacks on the public good, the corporatization and militarization of higher education and a growing authoritarianism in the culture have led, as Christopher Newfield observes, "to the abandonment of egalitarian and democratic impulses." This is especially detrimental to the role of higher education as a public …

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54 years, 11 months ago

National Review Comes Out Against Democracy, Explicitly

Slate

In the last week-plus, the nominally intellectual right-wing publication National Review has run three separate articles arguing that voting shouldn’t be easier to do, because if it is, stupid, ill-informed people will do too much of it. His argument was that given “the median cultural superiority of White over Negro,” it was only appropriate to prevent Black people from joining …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Biden blasts new Georgia voting laws as civil rights group sue

Al Jazeera

The new voting restrictions, signed into law on Thursday, are drawing widespread criticism from Democrats across the US. In a statement on Friday, Biden described the law, which the state’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed on Thursday after the Republican-dominated legislature passed it, as “Jim Crow in the 21st Century”, referring to the laws once used to suppress the vote …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Biden assails new Georgia voting law: ‘This is Jim Crow in the 21st century’

LA Times

During his first news conference Thursday, President Biden sharply criticized Republican efforts to increase voting restrictions. President Biden on Friday denounced a new Georgia law that would make it harder to vote in the state, one of many Republican efforts across the country to restrict access to the ballot box. “This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans …

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3 years, 9 months ago

‘Autocratic. Anti-Democratic. Anti-American’: Schumer launches blistering attack on GOP bills targeting voting rights

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Review by Senate Democrats finds more unreported luxury trips by Clarence Thomas

Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

Tribal leaders push Republican Tim Sheehy to apologize for comments on Native Americans

FACT FOCUS: A look back at false and misleading claims made during the the Democratic convention

FACT FOCUS: A look back at some of the questionable claims made during the Democratic convention

Harlan Crow helped fund Swiftboating. Trump campaign continues that legacy in Walz attack

Justice Clarence Thomas took undisclosed trip with GOP megadonor, Democratic senator finds

Biden held disastrous rambling Zoom call with Democratic lawmakers and lost his train of thought multiple times with 50 were ready to dump him ... an hour before Trump was shot

Rep. Byron Donalds, his gigantic Jim Crow myth and a forgotten fact about Black voters

Justice Clarence Thomas took more trips paid for by donor Harlan Crow, Senate panel reveals

Jim Crow 2.0: As US elections near, new efforts to suppress Black votes

Jim Jordan and James Comer have a new judicial plan: Protect GOP megadonors at all costs

What Is No Labels’ Plan for 2024? Wrong Question.

Republicans defending Clarence Thomas have gotten nearly $500K from Harlan Crow

Biden should order Clarence Thomas’s cases to be reviewed

Democratic senators urge chief justice to probe Thomas trips

Clarence Thomas faces new impeachment calls over luxury trip gifts from GOP megadonor

America is finally waking up to the fascist danger: Let's hope it's not too late

How higher education can win the war against neoliberalism and white supremacy

National Review Comes Out Against Democracy, Explicitly

Biden blasts new Georgia voting laws as civil rights group sue

Biden assails new Georgia voting law: ‘This is Jim Crow in the 21st century’

‘Autocratic. Anti-Democratic. Anti-American’: Schumer launches blistering attack on GOP bills targeting voting rights