Erik Prince was reportedly behind a campaign to surveil and discredit perceived enemies of President Trump inside the government, like H.R. McMaster and employees of the FBI. There's nothing normal about that. nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/…
The fact that Prince founded a mercenary army and is the brother of Betsy DeVos makes it even more concerning, as does the fact that he was also reportedly advising the White House at the same time. theintercept.com/2017/01/17/not…
Prince is already under investigation by the DOJ over whether he lied to a congressional committee examining Russian interference in the 2016 election.
We sued for Bill Barr’s communications with Prince to understand whether Prince was treated more favorably by the DOJ because of his connections to Trump.
When you see anti-HR 1 talking points getting tweeted out by certain members of Congress, you have to remember that the Koch network has backed plenty of those members, and really does not want HR 1 to pass
We’ve been hearing a lot about “woke corporations” so we thought we’d check in on how those corporate pledges about not donating to insurrectionists are holding up.
Toyota said in January that "Given recent events and the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol, we are assessing our future PAC criteria.”
Since then, it’s given a total of $51,000 to 34 different members who voted to reject the results of the election.
Koch Industries said they would take into account “the civility of candidates” before donating to them.
But it’s donated a total of $12,500 to five different members who voted to reject the results of the election.
We had a huge victory in court, got two FOIA scoops, sent letters to DHS and FinCEN and sued the government for records (again). Here’s a round-up
On Monday night, a federal judge ruled in a CREW lawsuit that the DOJ needs to make public a secret memo that Bill Barr cited when he announced he would not charge Trump with obstruction. citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
We also sent a letter along with 84 partners urging DHS not to destroy records of abuse in its detention facilities. citizensforethics.org/legal-action/l…
This may sound extreme, but to save our democracy, the filibuster needs to go.
Here’s why:
If 41 senators agree to block a bill, they can—even if the other 59 senators support it. That means that majority rule no longer exists in the United States Senate.
If the Founding Fathers knew about this, we don’t think they would be happy. They *literally* enshrined majority rule in the Constitution.
NEWS: Mike Pompeo violated federal ethics rules when he and his wife, Susan, asked State Department employees to carry out tasks for their personal benefit more than 100 times politico.com/news/2021/04/1…
Today, Fox announced that Lara Trump was joining the network as a paid contributor, as she decides whether she wants to run for Senate.
Never mind that the day before the insurrection, she went on Fox to spread election fraud lies… nytimes.com/2021/03/29/bus…
But Lara Trump is not the first Trump employee to get hired by Fox. In Kayleigh McEnany’s case, they were in talks before she had even left the White House. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…