Supreme Court Conflicts Of Interest: Follow the Money
Six unelected officials with hidden conflicts of interest and beholden to billionaires should not be able to strip Americans of their freedoms.
Who funded the campaigns to get extreme right wing judges appointed to the courts? How do the judges’ spouses make money? Why are their family income histories redacted? Who benefits from the cases they rule on? Follow the money behind potential Supreme Court conflicts of interest.
“Justices shield spouses’ work from potential conflict of interest disclosures. Ginni Thomas, Jane Roberts and Jesse Barrett’s clients remain a mystery, fanning fears of outside influences.”
“When courts become extensions of the political process, when people see them as extensions of the political process, when people see them as trying just to impose personal preferences on a society irrespective of the law, that’s when there’s a problem — and that’s when there ought to be a problem,” Kagan said during her remarks at Northwestern. — Politico
