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Sep 22 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Today, Senate Republicans stood in lockstep with their megadonors and secretive special interests to protect the most corrupting force in American politics—dark money.
The American people are fed up with dark money influence campaigns that rig their government against them and stymie their priorities. The #DISCLOSE Act would shine a light on special interest spending to neutralize its toxic effect, giving Americans’ voices a chance to be heard.
Republicans heeded the wishes of dark money donors today, but the fight to pass this bill isn’t over.

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Sep 22
We’re pushing the DISCLOSE Act now because dark money is fueling the dissatisfaction in American politics. Get rid of it; put voters in charge; and Congress will starting working for people again.
Studies show that politicians elected with dark money will more likely support legislation aligned with big corporations. Special interests get huge influence in government; regular people get statistically none.
The Supreme Court spent its last term on a unprecedented rampage, captured by dark money interests. With $580 million they pulled it off, and the captured Court started hacking away at Americans’ rights.
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Sep 19
.@RepMaloney & @RepRoKhanna are exposing the dishonesty, hypocrisy, and callousness that are the hallmarks of Big Oil. Their investigation is worth following, and @TheJusticeDept should take note
Yesterday, they released a treasure trove of internal documents from the world’s largest oil companies. Below is a thread with some of the highlights. oversight.house.gov/sites/democrat…
.@BP_PLC executives greet the news that 2016 was the hottest year ever with a round of drinking jokes and suggest that a “hot toddy” should be the drink of choice.
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Sep 17
Follow me through this: 

1.  The Chief Justice has the ability to direct investigations in the Court.  He proved this by directing the Alito draft leak investigation.
2.  The Court claims it can take care of itself with regards to ethics investigations, and therefore doesn’t need an enforceable code of ethics, or to have Justices subject to the rules for all other federal judges.
3.  Example: ethics investigations into Judge Kavanaugh were scrubbed, not because they were done, but because becoming Justice Kavanaugh let him escape from that ethics process.
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Sep 15
A court is not acting like a court when it runs up a record of 80-0 in partisan 5-4 decisions favoring big Republican donor interests.
A court is not acting like a court when it fails to police the true identities behind “amicus” filers whom it follows.
A court is not acting like a court when it wrecks precedent and sidelines procedure to achieve political goals, not once but time after time.
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Sep 12
If Roberts can investigate the Alito draft leak, can’t he investigate the now double-barreled Thomas recusal issue?
And if not, doesn’t that belie the theory that the Court can clean up its own messes?  And if it can’t, doesn’t that prove the need for Congress to step in?
My Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act would finally require the rest of the justices to weigh in on recusal issues.
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Sep 10
Right-wing extremists want to give state legislatures power to overturn federal elections — and finish what they started after the 2020 election. How? Here’s their scheme.
First, years of gerrymandering and dark money have built obedient Republican state legislatures — just look what red states did to abortion rights.
Next they turn to The Court That Dark Money Built. Years of packing extremists onto the Court and political pressure have brought an obedient Court supermajority to power.
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