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Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket
Aileen Cannon, federal judge and controversial jurist, who dismissed the criminal case involving classified documents against Donald Trump last July, failed in her disclosure of her attendance at the May 2023 banquet sponsored by a conservative legal school. Cannon attended an event in Arlington honoring late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Documents obtained by the…
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Newly resigned federal judge is accused of harassing a law clerk and ‘unwanted, offensive, and abusive sexual conduct’
According to the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit, Joshua Kindred resigned last week as a U.S. District Court Judge for Alaska after having an “inappropriately sexified relationship” with his law clerk, engaging in “unwanted sexual conduct” and lying about it to the Chief Judge. The findings of the investigation are summed up in a…
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Left and right agree on one thing: The justice system is corrupted by bias
The courts are not equal, and it is naive for anyone to think otherwise. The other day, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked a simple question which in an earlier era would have prompted a flurry of banalities from civics classes about the nation of laws or the wisdom of our founding fathers. Anderson…
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North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code
These decisions were made despite Judicial Standards Commission recommendations to publicly reprimand judges. This is likely the first time in over a decade that the court has not followed the commission’s advice. Three sources who were directly involved in the decision say that the North Carolina Supreme Court, behind closed doors, squelched disciplinary actions against…
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Justice Thomas discloses two 2019 trips paid for by Harlan Crow
The 2023 financial disclosure report for Supreme Court Justices shows six-figure payments to Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. According to the financial disclosures for eight of nine Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas revealed for the first-time that he visited Bali in 2019 and attended a private club located in California, both paid for by Harlan Crow. Crow…
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Ketanji Brown Jackson ethics complaints referred to judicial conference finance committee
The Committee on Financial Disclosures in the Judicial Conference has received a complaint from Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, alleging that her income was not disclosed. The Center for Renewing America – a conservative policy group – filed a complaint last month with the Judicial Conference, which oversees federal courts, alleging that Jackson had…
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Ketanji Brown Jackson slapped with ethics complaint over husband’s income
Group claims Supreme Court Justice omitted portions on husband’s income for years. A conservative policy group filed an ethics complaint in the United States against Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson, accusing him of “willfully” failing to disclose required income for many years during his tenure on federal benches. The Center for Renewing America (a think…
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A “Delicate Matter”: Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears He Would Resign
Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court justice, was in Sea Island, Georgia in early January 2000. He was hundreds of thousands in debt. Friends say that after almost a decade of playing tennis, Thomas was frustrated by his financial situation. Thomas had just started to raise his grandnephew and Thomas’s wife asked for advice on how she…
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Supreme Court adopts code of conduct amid ethics scrutiny
The announcement was received by a tepid applause, those who opposed it saying that it does not take enough steps since there isn’t an enforcement mechanism. The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it had formally adopted an updated code of conduct after allegations of ethics violations, but its impact will likely be minimal since…
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Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds
The loan of $267,230 was not repaid in full or even by the justice. The benefactor was able to wipe the slate clean with potential ethical and tax implications. The terms were generous and clear. Clarence Thomas, a judge, could borrow more than $250,000 from a wealthy friend, paying only interest for five years. The…