Summary of SCOTUS Decision on Arizona Public Financing
Read our full coverage of the Supreme Court’s decision and links to news and opinion Today Chief Justice Roberts, writing for a thin 5 to 4 majority of the Court, did no more than strike down one...
View ArticleSupreme Court Above the Law?
If reporters found evidence that President Obama had slipped out of the White House for a weekend trip with a wealthy, politically active businessman and then failed to report it or reported it...
View ArticleWill the Roberts Court Kill the Voting Rights Act?
Cross-posted with the American Constitution Society Will the Roberts Court Kill the Voting Rights Act? Speaking before a joint session of Congress on March 15, 1965, LBJ urged support for the Voting...
View ArticleUpdate: Supreme Conflict Continues Without Answers
Where we left off: Common Cause has been actively working on ethics issues surrounding members of the U.S. Supreme Court since January 2011, when we first raised questions about Justices Antonin...
View ArticleCommon Cause Response to SCOTUS Chief on Ethics
Common Cause issued this press release earlier today in response to remarks by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in his year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary. Roberts alluded...
View ArticleWe Were (and Are) in the Dark on SCOTUS
While we were all gone on holiday break, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was busy composing his end of the year report on the Federal Judiciary. He felt the need to “provide some...
View ArticleSCOTUS Ethics Commitment Overdue
On Monday, Common Cause along with ten other national organizations wrote to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, asking that the Court voluntarily adopt the Judicial Code of Conduct. Those with a...
View ArticleMore is More With SCOTUS Ethics Transparency
A big thank you to Senators Patrick Leahy, Dick Durbin, Al Franken, Richard Blumenthal, and Sheldon Whitehouse for asking the Supreme Court to provide greater transparency about the way it handles...
View ArticleSupreme Conflict: A Play in Five Acts (so far)
It reads like a Shakespearean drama–there was even a machete-wielding bad guy! But we all know how tragedies end. “The highest Court shouldn’t have the lowest standards.” Common Cause President Bob...
View ArticleThe 5 Most Absurd Quotes in McCutcheon v FEC Decision
Written by Stephen Spaulding & Arn Pearson Last week’s 5-4 Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC was a blow to an open and vibrant democracy that stakes its legitimacy on the robust...
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