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Fix the Court

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Fix the Court

@FixTheCourt

Watchdog of 3rd branch. Est. in 2014. We advocate for SCOTUS term limits, a SCOTUS ethics code, cameras in courts & other fixes that 70+% of Americans support.

Washington, D.C.

Joined November 2014

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Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Jun 18
BIG NEWS: Senate Judiciary Cmte. (@SenJudiciaryGOP + @JudiciaryDems) have advanced bills that wld: — Require #SCOTUS videostream oral args + opinion announcements (Cameras in the Courtroom) — Permit district & appeals courts to videostream proceedings (Sunshine in the Courtroom)
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Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Jul 10, 2018
There are more than a million Kavanaugh documents that are a matter of public record but are being withheld by DOJ & NARA. We're the only group in the country that filed FOIAs in 2017 to get all of them, meaning the documents are overdue. We'll be filing suit in the morning.
Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Jun 22, 2023
Confirmed by CNN: Justice Alito's free trip to Rome last year, which will appear in his disclosure once filed, was paid for by ND Law's Religious Liberty Initiative, which since its 2020 founding has filed several #SCOTUS briefs cnn.com/2023/06/22/pol… @devancole1 @audrey_ashhh.
Alito in the hot seat over trips to Alaska and Rome he accepted from groups and individuals who...
From cnn.com
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Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Dec 9, 2021
The Open Courts Act passes! By voice vote! Free PACER, here we come...!
Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Aug 9, 2024
It's probably a big deal that a trial court judge is calling out #SCOTUS for "eschewing historical analysis [& seeking to] fundamentally...redesign the relationship between the sovereign people & the 1st citizen of the Republic)" in an opinion that just came out, right?
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Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Jun 26, 2024
Shocked, SHOCKED, that #SCOTUS makes bribing public officials easier & more acceptable...again! Wonder if Justice Jackson has anyone in particular in mind here:
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Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
May 12, 2022
IT IS DONE! The Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal & Transparency Act (H.R. 7647) was just passed out of @HouseJudiciary. This is the most comprehensive judicial ethics bill to pass a congressional cmte. in memory, possibly ever, & we look forward to a vote on the House floor soon.
Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Dec 8, 2022
You can find the clearly unconstitutional provision Jane’s referring to, which would keep the identity of #SCOTUS spouses’ employers secret, on p. 2544 of the 4,408-page bill rules.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Jane Mayer
@JaneMayerNYer
Dec 8, 2022
Lawmakers have just added a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act protecting Supreme Court spouses from having to reveal any outside employer, in the name of security. If it passes, Ginni Thomas’s professional entanglements would effectively be state secrets.
Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Oct 23, 2020
🚨 30 Constitutional Law Scholars Endorse Proposal to End Life Tenure at #SCOTUS in Favor of 18-Year Term fixthecourt.com/2020/10/thirty… 🚨
Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Aug 20, 2018
We've just received 10,145 pages of material from Judge Kavanaugh's time in the Office of Independent Counsel due to our #FOIA suit & because life is never-ending feedback loop, included is a memo Kav wrote in 1995 about a potential Rod Rosenstein recusal archives.gov/files/research…
Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
May 10, 2019
Federal judges can make misconduct investigations disappear simply by retiring — and we want to fix this
Federal judges have a way to make investigations disappear
From apnews.com
Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Aug 5, 2022
Holy hell
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Aug 4, 2022
Sen. Whitehouse grills Director Wray's about how the FBI handled its sham investigation into Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation process
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Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
Jun 6, 2024
NEW: We've tallied all the gifts the justices have received over last 20 yrs plus others we've IDed but can't yet confirm & some prior to '04: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… The total is staggering: 672 gifts valued at $6,592,657. It pays to be a justice! #MostPowerfulLeastAccountable
docs.google.com
Supreme Court justices' gifts (6.6.24)
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Fix the Court
@FixTheCourt
May 6, 2023
This is a major scoop & a significant piece of news. We’ve been hearing from lower court judges they’re fed up with the poor ethical character displayed by Thomas specifically (& the rest of the Court more generally) & this could be a tipping point where more start to speak out.
Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
May 6, 2023
NEW: After ethics complaints were lodged against Justice Clarence Thomas in 2011, a member of the federal judiciary's senior leadership body repeatedly raised concerns about how that was being handled internally bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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