Above image: h/t Business Insider. Business Insider reports, Jane Roberts, who is married to Chief Justice John Roberts, made $10.3 million in commissions from elite law firms, whistleblower documents show: Two years after John Roberts’ confirmation as the Supreme Court’s chief justice in 2005, his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, made a pivot. After a long … Read more
The Washington Post reports, Advocate tells lawmakers of ‘stealth’ efforts to influence Supreme Court: Evangelical minister Robert L. Schenck recruited wealthy Christian couples to serve as “stealth missionaries” at the Supreme Court for about two decades, forging friendships with conservative justices to “bolster” their views, particularly on abortion, Schenck told the House Judiciary Committee on … Read more
Above image: h/t Slate. Jane Mayer in another lengthy, richly detailed investigative report at the New Yorker poses the question, Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court? (excerpts – I recommend you read the full report): President Joe Biden recently established a bipartisan commission to consider reforms to the Court, and members of … Read more
The media seems to have overlooked that this story relates back to Gen. Michael Flynn working as a foreign agent (undisclosed) for Turkey. Flynn wrote this pro-Turkey propaganda op-ed on election day in 2016 in The Hill, Our ally Turkey is in crisis and needs our support. Robert Mueller’s investigation later found that Flynn’s Turkish … Read more
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump, No. 1:17-cv-00458 (S.D.N.Y. 2017), was the first Emoluments Clause case filed against Donald Trump. United States District Judge George B. Daniels dismissed the case on December 21, 2017, holding that plaintiffs lacked standing. CREW filed an appeal, which the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled … Read more