It's the same bill *Republicans* in the House and Senate introduced half a dozen times 2006-2017, so...what now?

.Common Cause president Virginia Kase Solomon about to speak at presser at SCOTUS ethics rally w/ Rep. Melanie Stansbury Rep. Ilhan Omar Rep. Jamie Raskin Richard Blumenthal Congressman Troy A. Carter

Keep fighting the good fight!

Oh man where to begin

NEW:

Lawmakers are backing a new effort urging the Justice Department to disavow any reliance on the Supreme Court's racist 'insular cases' that effectively treat people in U.S. territories as second-class citizens.

Details here: nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

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Justice Thomas is not in court for Monday's Supreme Court oral arguments.

Chief Justice said Thomas would 'participate fully' based on briefs/transcripts but gave no reason for his absence.

No further information provided.

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7 new recusals at #SCOTUS in this morning's orders — Roberts 1, Alito 2, Kagan 2, Kavanaugh 1, Barrett 1 — with only Kagan explaining hers: supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor….

New: A $10,000 donation to U.S. Senator Robert Menendez's legal defense fund by the wife of a federal judge did not run afoul of judicial ethics rules, the chief judge of his court concluded in dismissing a misconduct complaint filed against him. reuters.com/legal/legalind…

To Kannon Shanmugam's point about the Bar section being half empty, we've asked #SCOTUS if they'd consider making it modular, so on argument days w/o a ton of Bar admissions & where the arg. is💤, members of the public could sit there, beyond the ~50 who get seats (no response).

Lest anyone forget, there are plenty of legislative reasons the subpoenas are happening.

Here are a few: fixthecourt.com/2023/12/the-le…

NEW: Can confirm reports that the Senate Judiciary Committee served Leonard Leo a subpoena Thursday re: the committee’s ongoing Supreme Court ethics inquiry. Comes months after Republicans stormed out of a committee mtg where Dems voted to authorize the action.
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Some of this is defensible, but then again, much of this is not:

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Not to be outdone Senate Rs are out with own judge-shopping bill, which would limit injunctions to parties & similarly situated folks w/i the district where injunction was issued.

Plus the bill includes sections reforming patent & bankruptcy venue issues fixthecourt.com/wp-content/upl….

NEW: Senators Schumer and McConnell have dueling bills to curtail ‘judge shopping.’

We’re first with details from both…

nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/…

JUST IN: Senate Dems seek to codify Judicial Conference's month-old judge-shopping policy, file a bill to take cases seeking nationwide injunctions out of a specific *division* & reassign them randomly within the *district* democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/….

Excellent interview by Mark Joseph Stern of 7th Circuit Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner. I have never met Judge Rovner, but after reading this, I certainly would like to.
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