 Emails are an important way we update supporters on our efforts to fight for a government that is ethical, accountable, and open. If you want to receive only our most important emails, please click here. What do you think the founders would think about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, which allowed billions of dollars to flood our elections? Or about a billionaire megadonor secretly gifting lavish vacations to a Supreme Court justice? The Federalist Papers describe corruption as a “bias [in] judgment,” turning an official’s judgment from concern for the “public good” to concern about the official’s own “interests.” If those seeking to alter policy or law can simply buy influence and access to government officials or judges, that doesn’t sound like much of a democracy at all. When Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas received lavish gifts from Harlan Crow, and his wife accepted payments from Leonard Leo — both without disclosure, they compromised public trust in the integrity of the Supreme Court’s decision-making process. That’s why we recently called on Thomas to resign. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:
CREW is also fighting for ethics reform to save the integrity of the Supreme Court in the long term. These ethics questions are bigger than just one justice, and unfortunately, Justice Thomas has called into question the integrity of the institution as a whole. I don’t say this lightly: Our democracy depends on us taking action. For decades, conservative and liberal judges and justices have tested the limits of the system’s weak ethics rules. Supreme Court justices have a record of failing to recuse themselves from cases where they have conflicts of interest and wealthy people and well-funded activists have purchased access to Supreme Court justices through gifts. Credibility is the Supreme Court’s currency and if that falls away, then the entire institution crumbles. We must take action and impose real measures of accountability on the Supreme Court. Support CREW’s work to do just that with a donation today → Thank you, Arielle Linsky Stogner Chief Operating Officer CREW
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