* * *
April 14, 2023
"The
Ethics of the Nine Most Powerful People in America"
NYT (editorial)
June 22, 2023
"Does
Justice Alito Hear Himself?"
NYT (Jesse Wegman)
Wall Street Journal
June 26, 2023
"Group
targeting conservative Supreme Court justices propped up by
left-wing megadonors"
Washington Examiner
(Breccan F. Thies)
May 11, 2023
"The
Origins of Our Investigation into Clarence Thomas'
Relationship with Harlan Crow"
Stephen
Engelberg, Jesse Eisinger
Editors at ProPublica have been thinking about the need to
look more closely at the state and federal judiciary for
years....
Last year, we worked with our partners at The Lever on a
story revealing that a
wealthy industrialist had gifted $1.6 billion to a group run
by Leonard Leo, a key player in assembling the Supreme
Court’s conservative majority. Reporting in recent years has
shown Leo running dark money groups focused on influencing
the judiciary.
We admired the work done by our colleagues, notably at The
Wall Street Journal, which found federal
judges were ruling on a surprising number
of cases in which they had a financial interest. A New York
Times piece on what appeared to
be a coordinated effort to befriend and influence Supreme
Court justices also caught our eye.
But the federal judiciary still struck us as a relatively
under-scrutinized branch of our democracy. So late last
year, we assigned Justin Elliott, Josh Kaplan and Alex
Mierjeski to take a look. The team filed a raft of public
information requests for records on courts across the
country.
Early on, the ProPublica team decided to focus on the
highest court in the land and began by scouring the annual
disclosure forms filed by the justices. Research in some
obscure corners of the internet brought to light evidence
that Thomas had made at least one trip on Crow’s plane that
had not been disclosed.
...
Our reporting on the courts continues, and we stand ready to
look into questions about judges or justices of any
ideological stripe.
April 27, 2022
"Dozens
of Federal Judges Had Financial Conflicts: What You Need to
Know"
Wall Street Journal (Michael Siconolfi,
Coulter Jones, Joe Palazzolo, James V. Grimaldi
November 19, 2022
"Former
Anti-Abortion Leader Acknowledges Another Supreme Court
Breach"
New York Times (Jodi Kantor, Jo
Becker)
Pro Publica "Courts"
"Editors at ProPublica have been thinking about the
need to look more closely at the state and federal judiciary
for years." --
partnered with Lever
"Justice
Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP
Billionaire
Who Later Had Cases Before the Court"
Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Meirjeski
June 22, 2023
"Alito's
excuses about billionaire's group
ascribing
motive -- "To be clear, we are covering the supreme court
because last year my colleague Justin and I were thinking
about how it seems that the judciary just doesn't get
covered like other branches of government. There is vigorous
coverage of congresspeople of both parties, of presidents,
of cabinet officials. There is relatively, there is
not a history of investigative coverage of the Supreme Court
or the lower courts, for that matter. And, it turns
out, as we started digging, there is alot to find there,
I think because the rules that exist in these other branches
are just [not] in place at the Supreme Court". here
The rules --
partisan motivation, as well, which I can say that we are
actively reporting on all the justices and we are eager to
learn as much as we can about ethics and the Supreme Court
with no regards to partisanship."
"
June 1, 2023
"Supreme
Risk"
Ian McDougall, Sergio Hernandez
********************************
April 22, 2023
Interview of Justin Elliot
June 2023
NBC -- meet the press Elliott interview
"It's a bit
of a black box"
June 21, 2023
Interview of Kaplan
PBS
June 21, 2023 -- NPR, Nina Totenberg
"Supreme
Court Justice Samuel Alito's ethics come into question with
ProPublica report"
June 22, 2023
"Breaking
down ProPublica's Samuel Alito scoop and Alito's preemptive
WSJ response"
Poynter
June 22, 2023
"Joshua
Kaplan on Supreme Court ethics and Samuel Alito"
C-Span
* * *
July 17, 2023
"How
Harlan Crow Slashed His Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas
on Superyacht Cruises"
Thomas Kiel
THE UNTOUCHABLE: INVESTIGATING SOUTH CAROLINA'S JUDGES
April 25, 2019
"Have
a Complaint About a South Carolina Judge? Help Us
Investigate"
April 25, 2019
"South
Carolina: The State Where Judges Rule Themselves in Secret"
----------------
October 31, 2022
"Colorado
Suspends One Family Court Custody Expert,
Reviews All Custody Evaluators Following ProPublica
Investigation "
Hannah Dreyful
