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Ensuring political appointees serve the public interest.
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We think officials who once worked for a company should recuse themselves when the government considers pursuing criminal charges against that company.
The DOJ's Lisa Monaco does not.
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Big Oil is begging SCOTUS to block Honolulu's suit against them. The clock is ticking for Biden's DOJ to file an amicus brief supporting Honolulu against the polluters — or else potentially let a Trump DOJ take a wrecking ball to polluter accountability.
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For more on how court-whisperers and judicial gift givers like Leonard Leo, Charles Koch, Paul Singer, and Harlan Crow are influencing the Court through amicus briefs, check out SupremeTransparency.org, a project of Revolving Door Project, True North Research, and @takebackthect.bsky.social.
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The New Civil Liberties Alliance supported this outcome as well. In addition to being Koch-backed, the group is also funded by court-whisperer extraordinaire Leonard Leo. The group also backed petitioners in one of the cases which resulted in Chevron being overruled.
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Another Koch-backed amicus filer is the Cato Institute, which has also long pursued a deregulatory economic agenda on behalf of corporations and billionaires.
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One group supporting this outcome was Americans for Prosperity, the "main political arm" of the Koch Network, which has long fought for corporate interests. ProPublica recently revealed that Clarence Thomas participated in at least two Koch Network donor events.
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The decision in Corner Post effectively eliminates the statute of limitations to challenge agency rules. Billionaires and corporations could use this ruling to challenge any regulation they want, no matter how long it has been in effect. www.americanprogress.org/article/corn...
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SCOTUS has just dealt another massive blow to the administrative state. Even decades-old regulatory protections are not safe.
At least 6 amicus filers tied to court-whisperers like Leonard Leo and Charles Koch urged such a ruling. supremetransparency.org/cases/corner...
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For more on how court-whisperers and judicial gift givers like Leo, Koch, Singer, and Crow are influencing the Court through amicus briefs, check out supremetransparency.org, a project of Revolving Door Project, True North Research, and @takebackthect.bsky.social.
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Americans for Limited Government, which received over $1.5 million from Leo's network in a single year, also filed a brief advocating for the decision the Court handed down today. The group's website has an explicit endorsement from Ginni Thomas!
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Disgraced coup-memo author and former Thomas Clerk John Eastman also filed a brief. Clarence Thomas previously recused from Eastman's Jan. 6 case, and Ginni Thomas exchanged emails with him ahead of the attack on the Capitol.
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Another group is the Manhattan Institute, which has links to three billionaires that have lavished gifts on the justices, including Alito's fishing buddy Paul Singer and real estate mogul Harlan Crow. It also has financial ties to Leo.
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One amicus filer in this case is the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has received substantial funding from Clarence Thomas's Bohemian Grove buddy Charles Koch, as well as Leonard Leo, who arranged secret payments of tens of thousands of dollars to Ginni Thomas.
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This decision goes beyond the SEC, and it is a boon to white-collar crooks and billionaires like Elon Musk (who himself filed an amicus brief in the case) who have long sought to weaken financial regulators. www.vox.com/scotus/35755...
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The Supreme Court has just weakened the ability of the federal government to enforce the law against corporate criminals.
13 right wing amicus brief filers linked to court whisperers like Leonard Leo and Charles Koch urged such a ruling.
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Important piece by @grahamsteele.bsky.social on US regulators' efforts to obstruct global financial rulemaking aimed at reducing climate risk.
This is one of the key reasons why we opposed Jay Powell's renomination as Fed chair: therevolvingdoorproject.org/release-when...
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One thing is certain—if Trump becomes president again, he’ll do worse than the extensive damage we outline in this series. Because this time, his radical right-wing backers have had four years to plan what they would do.
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Remember when... Trump's Labor Department expanded the definition of who qualifies as independent contractors while removing minimum wage, discrimination, and overtime protections for independent contractors?
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Remember when... Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon with no public policy experience whatsoever, oversaw housing issues, and proposed to triple rents for the nation’s poorest tenants after Congress enacted Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax cut for the top 1%?
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Remember when... Trump appointed Elaine Chao to run Transportation, who oversaw the shattering of American supply chains, bungled the handling of the Boeing 747 MAX 8 disaster in 2019, and repealed rail safety regulations?
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Remember when... Trump's financial regulators weakened safeguards that were established after the 2008 financial crash, directly contributing to the later failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank?
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Remember when... Trump appointed Betsy DeVos to run the Education Department, a billionaire heir and GOP donor who didn’t believe in public education?
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Remember when... Trump appointed Scott Pruitt to run EPA, whose relevant professional experience was suing the EPA fourteen times, and who misspent millions in public funds while misusing EPA staffers to find his wife a job and do his personal errands?
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Remember when... Trump's FEMA prioritized disaster aid according to how much it helped Trump politically, slow-walking aid to Puerto Rico in the wake of Irma and Maria, two consecutive disastrous hurricanes?
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Remember what politics was like under Trump?
If the specifics have gotten a little murky by now, our newsletter has the highlights from our new series of retrospectives on how Trump and his cronies made life a little worse.
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Big banks can afford to retain more money to absorb losses instead of relying on public bailouts. But that'll modestly reduce private profits and bonuses.
So Powell, a Republican private equity veteran, is intervening on behalf of his wealthy friends.
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Who stands to benefit from the watered-down framework that Powell is pushing? Wall Street, his previous (& likely future) home! Per Jeremy Kress, Powell's preferred changes would free up $115 billion for big banks to pay out to their shareholders/execs.
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Pro-Powell camp, 2021: His regulatory deficiencies can be fixed by a strong Vice Chair for Supervision.
RDP, 2021: No, Biden's VCS will play a subservient role within Powell's Fed.
Now: Powell is killing Barr's plan to strengthen capital requirements.
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Deputy AG Lisa Monaco’s relationship with Boeing “speaks to the non-adversarial relationship” between big corporations and the country’s top law enforcement officials, says our @andreabeaty.bsky.social.
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NEW: Our Dylan Gyauch-Lewis points out the dishonesty in
the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's recent blog bemoaning that "government spending just keeps on growing."
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For more on the Trump retrospectives, visit: therevolvingdoorproject.org/the-trump-re... end/
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“The media should not focus on the aesthetics of this week’s presidential debate but rather cover the Biden vs. Trump election as a comparison between how each president administered the immensely important executive branch.” - Hauser 10/
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“Donald Trump’s most important legacy as president wasn’t what he said, or even what bills he signed, but how he turned the federal government into a favor machine to benefit his family and cronies.” - our @jeffhauser.bsky.social 9/
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...the repeal of payday lending consumer protections, the authorization of wage theft from tipped workers, and the protection of disreputable corporate polluters and for-profit educational institutions.” - Iwayemi 8/
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“There are multiple examples of this indifference, including the disgraceful response to hurricanes Irma and Maria, the destructive mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic...
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“The Trump administration was utterly indifferent to the public interest while prioritizing the wealth of the Trump family and their richest enablers.” - Iwayemi 6/
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“Even as current conversations wisely focus on Project 2025 and Trump’s promise to leverage executive power to harm political enemies, it’s important to revisit how poorly he ran the executive branch his first time round as a cure to the public’s apparent Trumpnesia.” - our Timi Iwayemi 5/
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The memos highlight the myriad ways the former president and his cast of conflicted appointees prioritized corporate interests while jeopardizing the health, safety and wellbeing of the American people. 4/
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Sadly, former president Donald Trump either neglected this responsibility or wielded it in favor of corporations throughout his four years in office. 3/
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The series serves as a reminder to the public that the president’s primary responsibility is to direct the vast apparatus known as the executive branch of the federal government. 2/
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RELEASE: New Memos Detail The Trump Administration’s Troubling Stewardship of the Federal Executive Branch
Today, the Revolving Door Project released a series of memos cataloging the Trump approach to running the federal executive branch. 1/
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One of the most important pending Supreme Court cases this term is City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson.
Top California Democrats and 6 right-wing amicus filers linked to Court powerbrokers want SCOTUS to eviscerate the rights of homeless people.
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When will Jeffrey Zients get the memo? prospect.org/power/2024-0...
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We hope to see Biden tell Trump in the debate that the president understands what Trump is promising his fossil fuel donors, and that Biden is empowering the FTC and DOJ to follow the facts and protect consumers from exploitation by those same donors.
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Per our @kennystancil.bsky.social, Biden should vilify Big Oil.
"The FTC’s revelation of an oil price-fixing scheme by GOP donors and foreign powers places blame for economic pain where it belongs: the profit-maximizing fossil fuel industry."
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The oil money pipeline to Trump is flowing, per @politico.com's Morning Energy newsletter, and with the Sheffields it's like father like son: spending hundreds of thousands on undermining democracy.
We've tallied Scott Sheffield's political donations: therevolvingdoorproject.org/the-pro-foss...
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Learn more about the billionaire powerbrokers and right-wing groups lobbying the Supreme Court via amicus briefs at supremetransparency.org. ⬇️
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The Supreme Court could soon overturn Chevron deference.
21 right-wing groups linked to SCOTUS powerbrokers like Charles Koch, Leonard Leo, and Paul Singer are urging the Court to make its most dangerous regulatory power-grab yet.
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Public perceptions of the economy aren’t solely dictated by opinion columnists. But these pundits do indeed have influence. Instead of blaming the public’s supposed selective attention, they should reconsider the biases present in their own coverage.
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While extolling the virtues Costco for keeping its popular loss-leader at $1.50, she ignored the corporation's plans to both raise prices on other goods AND sell customer data to advertisers.
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