Andi Pandi on Spoutible

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I don’t publicize what I say there, but I can tell you that at the last six meetings I’ve continually raised this topic, to an increasingly warm and interested response.

The results are coming in.

11:33 AM - Mar 19, 2024

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Justice Scalia had a trick where an intermediary would wangle a “personal invitation” for him to a hunting resort, and Scalia would pretend that made it “personal hospitality” that did not need to be disclosed, even if he’d never met the resort owner.

11:33 AM - Mar 19, 2024

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The Judicial Conference blew that trick to smithereens.

The creepy billionaires instruct their chosen justices how to rule through “amicus briefs,” filed in little flotillas by groups who don’t disclose their common donors. Think of amicus briefs as judicial lobbying.

11:33 AM - Mar 19, 2024

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In one case, an entity filed a brief under a “fictitious name”; in another, a 501c3 nonprofit entity was the petitioner, and the amicus flotilla failed to disclose funding from the 501c3’s own 501c4 counterpart organization.

11:33 AM - Mar 19, 2024

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The Judicial Conference has announced it’s working to clean that scheme up.

In the “Scalia trick” matter, Justice Thomas instantly claimed it was a new rule, though the Conference had called it a “clarification.

11:33 AM - Mar 19, 2024

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” It’s a big difference: if it was a clarification, Thomas (and Alito) would have to go back and clean up years of false filings. The Conference is looking into that, too, and it could be a big deal if justices have to reveal past gifts.

11:33 AM - Mar 19, 2024

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This is just to let you know that in addition to my legislative and investigative work on clean-up at the Supreme Court, I’m making progress in this unexpected forum.

11:33 AM - Mar 19, 2024

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