Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell after a right-wing group receives a record $1.6 billion donation to boost conservative causes. Leonard Leo, who Sen. Whitehouse says we can thank for a Supreme Court we can “no longer trust,” now runs the group
Mar 29, 2023 #msnbc #scotus #ginnithomas
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse tells MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell it feels “good” to get a new ethics rule that Supreme Court justices have to disclose certain gifts and trips, but describes the “huge” gap that remains to gaining ethical transparency, including the lack of process to investigate any possible ethical violations such as the $600,000 anonymous donations to a group led by Ginni Thomas.
A little history:
Elizabeth Kennedy - August 9, 2011
By Rich Gardella - April 11, 2017
March 31, 2022
Murphy: There is Absolutely No Reason Why Supreme Court Justices Shouldn’t Be Subject to a Code of Conduct Just Like Every Other Federal Judge
Hopefully this is just the first step to reigning the MAGA Supreme Justices corporate sycophancy.