Dear Reader,
Wow! On almost a daily basis, we are learning how lawless our Supreme Court is right now. In fact, they have been keeping secrets for decades that the American people had every right to know about. What else is being kept from us?
Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Neil Gorsuch, and even Chief Justice John Roberts are now engulfed in scandals that include decades of extravagant gifts from a right-wing billionaire who has paintings by Adolf Hitler in his private museum collection, secret sweetheart real estate deals involving family members, and million-dollar payments to prominent law firms that have business before the Supreme Court.
Despite the controversies raging all around him, Chief Justice John Roberts refuses to explain himself or the flouting of fundamental judicial ethics by the nation’s highest court.
This is the same court that overturned Roe v. Wade less than one year ago, that has attacked reasonable gun control measures to protect schoolchildren, rolled back environmental protections in the face of a global climate crisis, and is now deciding cases designed to strip away voting rights and affirmative action.
And this is the same Supreme Court that is increasingly using the “shadow docket”—a secretive process that releases controversial decisions without explanation and often in the middle of the night in an effort to escape scrutiny.
The New Republic’s mission is to shine a spotlight on corruption and attempts to subvert democracy. We have been a leading force in the effort to investigate and examine the arguments and behind-the-scenes maneuvering that underlie the Supreme Court’s most polarizing decisions. TNR editor Michael Tomasky has amped up these efforts recently, and staff expert Matt Ford will interview Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a prominent Supreme Court critic, at a TNR live event just a few weeks from now.
But the sheer volume of corruption allegations and relentless judicial activism of the current Supreme Court demand that we do more. We desperately need to launch a new Supreme Court Watch to expand our investigations of the nation’s highest court and the far-reaching damage it is doing to American democracy.
This is where you come in. To launch our new Supreme Court Watch, we need just $25,000. That is a very achievable number if readers like you step up.
Small, individual donors have long been the backbone of our democracy, contributing to just causes that protect and defend our nation against the forces that rise up to attack it. This is one of those times. We hope that you are one of those Americans.
If you think that the Supreme Court needs to be investigated, that it is using its powers to chip away at the fundamental rights of you and your fellow citizens, please help us in this urgent campaign.
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