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Harlan Crow's stonewalling over gifts to Justice Thomas tests Senate's power

WASHINGTON — Harlan Crow, the conservative billionaire who bestowed luxurious trips and private real estate deals on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his family, is signaling a will to do what auto-industry chieftains and Wall Street titans dared not: defy a Senate subpoena.

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Harlan Crow funds dark money groups

"Crow's secret political contributions and undisclosed gifts to Thomas can be seen as two sides of the same coin"

Salon

Texas surpasses Tennessee as the state with the most enacted legislation so far this year, with 20 bills signed into law.

Welcome to The Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia’s Weekly Digest on Election Administration. Every Friday, we deliver the latest updates on election policy around the country, including legislative activity, nationwide trends, and recent news. In each issue, you’ll find updates on legislative activity and recent news.

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Supreme Court upholds federal law on Native American children - Roll Call

The Supreme Court upheld a 1978 law that prioritizes Native American children being fostered or adopted by Native American families.

Roll Call

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had a secret real estate billionaire benefactor. We just got a look at the other justices’ holdings

Sonia Sotomayor's more than $1 million apartment in New York City's West Village was disclosed—and John Roberts's house in Ireland.

Fortune

U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Alabama’s Congressional Maps In Allen V. Milligan Decision

The United States Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s congressional redistricting plans violated the Voting Rights Act.

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The Shadow Docket review: how the US supreme court keeps sunlight out

Steve Vladeck offers a closely argued, detailed case against the justices’ use of procedure to advance a rightwing agenda

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U.S. Supreme Court overturns Alabama’s congressional maps in Allen v. Milligan decision

On June 8, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Alabama’s congressional redistricting plan adopted in November 2021 and used in the state’s 2022 elections violated the Voting Rights Act and must be redrawn to include a second majority-Black district.

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Roy Wood Jr.: I need to host late night

As the comic heads out on tour, he discusses the writers' strike, Gwyneth Paltrow, Correspondents' Dinner and more

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Supreme Court backs challenge to Alabama congressional map - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Black voters who challenged Alabama’s congressional map as a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

Roll Call

Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports

Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

WEKU

Justice Jackson reports flowers from Oprah, designer clothing as Thomas delays filing disclosure

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has disclosed that she received a $1,200 congratulatory floral display from Oprah Winfrey and $6,580 in designer clothing for a magazine photo shoot in her first months as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

The Independent UK

First Thing: Ukraine says 42,000 at risk from dam flooding

US National Security Council says burst dam has probably caused ‘many deaths’ as fears grow for missing people. Plus, scientists trace the origins of masturbation

The Guardian - UK

Mega-donor faces new Senate subpoena threat over gifts to Clarence Thomas

Senator Ron Wyden, chair of finance panel, warns of ‘next steps’ to compel testimony of Harlan Crow about supreme court justice

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How the SCOTUS 'Supermajority' is shaping policy on everything from abortion to guns

Constitutional lawyer Michael Waldman says there's a growing divide between the electorate and the Court: "the country is moving in one direction ... the Court is moving fast in another direction."

The Guardian - US

The Supermajority review: How the supreme court trumped America

Michael Waldman delivers a terrific if chilling account of how conservatives hijacked US democracy

The Conversation

Judging the judges: Scandals have the potential to affect the legitimacy of judges – and possibly the federal judiciary, too

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is no stranger to controversy.

Salon

Thomas and Paxton: Oligarchy at work

Clarence Thomas and Ken Paxton's high-end corruption isn't about a few "bad apples." It's how our system works

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Supreme Court revives claims that SuperValu, Safeway overcharged governments for generic drugs

The Supreme Court has unanimously revived whistleblower lawsuits claiming that supermarket and pharmacy chains SuperValu and Safeway overcharged government health-care programs for prescription drugs by hundreds of millions of dollars

The Independent UK

One justice explained absence from case. Another didn't. Ethics questions vexing Supreme Court

One Supreme Court justice explained her absence from a case

The Guardian - US

Congress ‘absolutely’ can impose ethics reform on supreme court, senator says

Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse insists legislature has power to make justices follow ethics code but ‘It is not going to be easy’

The Conversation

The Supreme Court just shriveled federal protection for wetlands, leaving many of these valuable ecosystems at risk

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Sackett v. EPA that federal protection of wetlands encompasses only those wetlands that directly adjoin rivers, lakes and other bodies of water. This is an extremely narrow interpretation of the Clean Water Act that could expose many wetlands across the U.S. to filling…

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Supreme Court narrows Clean Water Act protections - Roll Call

The Supreme Court narrowed the protections of the Clean Water Act to wetlands and other bodies of water directly connected to federal waters;

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Roberts breaks silence amid Thomas mess

Roberts said Congress has no business interfering in Supreme Court ethics

The Independent UK

Everything we know about Ron DeSantis’ policies as he launches 2024 campaign

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to announce his campaign for president on Wednesday evening

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