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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
November 1, 2023 at 7:09 PM

Let me tell you about Gabe Amo

and what he can do for Rhode Island and our country   Team, Congress has been in a state of chaos for weeks because of the extreme Republican majority in the House of Representatives. It has never been more important to send a strong Democratic voice to represent us in Washington. Rhode Island …
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
October 31, 2023 at 10:59 PM

Imagine if the GOP also had control of the Senate

that’s a scary thought.   Well, team, the House of Representatives finally has a speaker. The question is, will Speaker Johnson and his fellow MAGA House extremists continue to play politics instead of govern? Just a month ago, the MAGA crowd in the House brought the whole country to the brink …
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
October 29, 2023 at 8:18 PM

Reproductive rights are on the ballot in Virginia and Ohio

we need a Democratic Senate majority to have the last word on abortion   Team, Virginia and Ohio voters will head to the polls in state elections next week, and reproductive rights will be on the ballot. In Virginia, Democrats are battling to take control of the General Assembly and prevent the…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
October 25, 2023 at 5:21 PM

Another justice moves.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett calls for Supreme Court ethics reform   Team, Justice Amy Coney Barrett has joined the growing chorus of justices expressing public support for a real ethics code at the Supreme Court. Speaking about adopting a more stringent code of ethics, the Republican appointee sai…
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  Jacky · [email protected]
October 23, 2023 at 8:31 PM

You can read this in 60 seconds

Team, this won't take more than 60 seconds: CNN has ranked me as one of the most vulnerable senators on the ballot. And now, a poll shows me 2 points down in the race that will likely decide Senate control. That's why Mitch McConnell handpicked my opponent, setting his sights on me as a top targ…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
October 21, 2023 at 4:21 PM

My new Supreme Court term limits bill

Sign our petition to call on Congress to pass my Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act   Term limits for Supreme Court justices are long overdue, team. This week we rolled out my new Supreme Court term limits bill to help clean up the mess at the Court, ensure that future appo…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
October 18, 2023 at 9:37 PM

What do climate change, the Koch brothers, and the Supreme Court have in common?

Dark money.   Team, Every once in a while, you find out that things seemingly separate are actually connected by hidden strings. Dark money is the hidden string tying together the climate denial operation. Recently Vox did an excellent job showing the importance of fighting climate denialism, …
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
October 14, 2023 at 7:13 PM

The ubiquitous Leonard Leo...

and his dark-money web   Team, The latest reporting from ProPublica does an excellent job connecting all the dots of the scheme I’ve been shining a light on for years: a slimy web of dark money, right-wing billionaires, amenable Supreme Court Justices, and the court fixer Leonard Leo. This sche…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
October 11, 2023 at 7:58 PM

SCOTUS just started a new term

here’s what’s on the docket   Team, The Supreme Court just began a new term with historically low approval ratings – only 41% of the public approves of how the Court does its job, according to The Washington Post. And as more stories come out about the Republican billionaire megadonors trying t…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
October 7, 2023 at 5:26 PM

Big Oil has always had a license to pollute for free – until now.

Democrats are getting things done on climate   Great news, team. The Biden administration recently announced it’s going to put the power of the full federal government into fighting climate change through a government-wide social cost of carbon directive. Fossil fuel does about $700 billion in…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
October 3, 2023 at 7:17 PM

Clarence Thomas and the Koch network

Here we go again…   Team, Yet another investigative ProPublica story has dropped – again spotlighting Justice Clarence Thomas’ ties to billionaire-funded organizations scheming to influence the Court. And it’s got all the usual suspects. One of the biggest forces in dark-money influence is the …
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
September 28, 2023 at 4:39 PM

Not one dollar, dime, or penny

this is a people-powered movement   Team, Thirteen years ago, the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to unlimited, untraceable money in Citizens United. Ever since then, dark money has been flooding into politics and warping our democracy. Americans sense that something in their government is r…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
September 27, 2023 at 5:03 PM

Your priorities are my priorities

Here’s what I’m working on   Team, Here in Washington, Democrats are working hard to pass legislation that moves our country forward. We’re having to contend with MAGA extremists in the House careening the country towards a government shutdown that will cause widespread economic pain for familie…
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  Team Casey · [email protected]
September 23, 2023 at 6:31 PM

NEW: Mitch McConnell’s hand-picked candidate is trying to unseat Bob Casey

Bob Casey just got a Republican challenger BREAKING: Bob Casey just got a Republican challenger — and he’s a mega-millionaire hedge fund executive who lives in Connecticut and who put $14 million into his last campaign. He could easily self-fund this Senate race, too. This could be the race tha…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
September 21, 2023 at 10:18 PM

The movement to capture the Supreme Court

let’s break it down   Team, As soon as the Supreme Court handed down the 2010 Citizens United decision allowing a flood of unlimited special interest money in our elections, court fixer Leonard Leo and Justice Thomas' wife Ginni were out of the gate launching a dark-money front group. It was fun…
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  Hank Johnson · [email protected]
September 19, 2023 at 7:35 PM

We can keep SCOTUS in check

Supreme Court justices should not be able to escape accountability. Hi folks, I’m Congressman Hank Johnson. I represent Georgia’s 4th District outside Atlanta, and I want to quickly tell you how much my friend Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is doing in Congress to repair the credibility of the Supreme C…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
September 16, 2023 at 6:31 PM

Why I ran for office

a legacy of service Team, The Providence Journal recently published a column about my record of serving our veterans as well as they have served our nation. “U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s high national profile as a liberal fighting to combat climate change and eliminate 'dark money' in politic…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
September 12, 2023 at 3:24 PM

Justice Alito declined to recuse.

what happened to due process?   Team, Justice Alito has rejected calls to recuse himself from a major upcoming case… in which he has an apparent conflict of interest. In Alito's statement about why he wouldn't recuse from deciding a case in which one of the lawyers published a favorable intervie…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
September 9, 2023 at 6:36 PM

My letter to Chief Justice John Roberts

and why it matters   Team, This week, I wrote a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts to lodge an ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for violating a handful of principles of judicial ethics. These apparent violations of SCOTUS’ Statement of Ethics Principles and Practice…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
September 7, 2023 at 5:01 PM

This email is about penguins

and climate change, more specifically   Team, take a look at this headline I recently saw in The Guardian: Climate change is heating up the world’s oceans and scientists have discovered emperor penguins’ futures are uncertain. With sea ice melting at unprecedented rates, the penguins’ colonies …
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  Team Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 31, 2023 at 5:19 PM

Relentless. Persistent.

1 year after SW helped pass the Inflation Reduction Act   Team, August marks one year since the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law. At a celebration for the anniversary, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a huge shoutout to Sheldon for his leadership in paving the way for the Inflation Re…
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  Whitehouse HQ · [email protected]
August 29, 2023 at 4:05 PM

A “critical and constitutionally appropriate step”

What a LA Times editorial piece has to say about Sheldon’s bill   A “critical and constitutionally appropriate step,” team. That’s what an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times calls Senator Whitehouse’s Supreme Court ethics reform bill, following ProPublica’s investigative reports exposing Justice Tho…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 27, 2023 at 8:46 PM

Can you take my brief survey?

I want to know your top priorities   Team, Congress will reconvene for the September legislative session next week. But before the Senate gets back into full swing, I want to ask you about your priorities. While Republicans in Washington are busy doing the bidding of the big dark-money donors b…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 25, 2023 at 3:24 PM

Four criminal cases against former President Trump

Trump 2 would be a disaster   Team, Former President Trump has been indicted in four different criminal cases and faces a total of 91 felony counts. Our Democratic-controlled Senate is still working to repair the damage done by the Trump administration, and our work is far from over. Another Tru…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 23, 2023 at 7:15 PM

Let’s talk climate

this won’t take long.   “The climate emergency is a race we are losing, but it is a race we can win.” - Antonio Guterres, U.N. Secretary General I’ll keep this email short, team, because this is not a new revelation. Scientists around the world agree: Climate change is preventable. The main obst…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 21, 2023 at 3:28 PM

Republicans’ anti-democratic tricks in Ohio

that voters saw right through   Team, By now you’ve heard the news of what happened in Ohio. Ahead of a November vote to protect abortion access through a referendum, the GOP tried to make it harder to amend the state constitution by requiring all amendments to receive at least 60% of the vote, …
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 18, 2023 at 2:51 PM

Social Security and Medicare are under threat

but Democrats are fighting back.   Team, Republicans' proposals to harm Social Security and Medicare – benefits that Americans have earned over decades of hard work – never seem to go away. Seniors deserve a dignified retirement and that means being able to afford the essentials, like food on th…
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  Team Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 12, 2023 at 3:31 PM

A quick request

Can you add your name to call on Congress to pass Senator Whitehouse’s SCERT Act?   Team, By now you’ve heard the news that the Senate Judiciary Committee passed Sheldon’s bill – the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act – to implement a binding code of ethics at the Suprem…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 10, 2023 at 9:23 PM

38 vacations

and the billionaires who paid for them   Team, Three decades on the Court. At least 38 undisclosed vacations – including a yachting trip around the Bahamas, over two dozen private jet flights, and a handful of VIP sporting event passes – paid for by right-wing billionaires. And that's only what…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 6, 2023 at 9:16 PM

Here’s what Republicans have planned if they win next year.

Ahead of the 2024 elections, right-wing groups have put together a plan called “Project 2025.”   Team, Ahead of the 2024 elections, right-wing groups have put together a plan called “Project 2025.” It’s a plan to kneecap the progress we’ve made combatting climate change, and it’s designed to go …
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 3, 2023 at 5:18 PM

RE: Add your name to protect the right of women

to cross state lines   Team, A few weeks ago, I wrote to you asking if you’d support my bill to protect the right of women to cross state lines to seek abortion care. 1,831 of you added your name to the petition to back my Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act – that’s the highest amount of subm…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 31, 2023 at 3:41 PM

A key deadline

can you help us reach our end-of-month fundraising goal?   Our end-of-month fundraising deadline is tonight at midnight, team. Meeting our fundraising goal in July is really important. I’m the biggest adversary of the dark money apparatus, and those big special interests are going to be watching…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 27, 2023 at 5:21 PM

Just hours before the vote on SCOTUS ethics

another story broke…   Team, Last week, right before the Senate Judiciary Committee passed my Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act, yet another story about billionaire influence at the Supreme Court was published. The Washington Post story revealed that groups controlled by court-…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 23, 2023 at 3:16 PM

ICYMI

The Senate Judiciary Committee passed my bill Did you see the news, team? My Democratic colleagues and I in the Senate Judiciary Committee were finally able to pass my bill to implement a binding code of ethics at the Supreme Court. Here’s a brief reminder of exactly what my Supreme Court Ethic…
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  Team Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 20, 2023 at 5:17 PM

BREAKING: The Senate Judiciary Committee just passed Sheldon’s bill

this is big.   Team, Senate Judiciary Committee passes Senator Whitehouse’s Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act donate Big news: The Senate Judiciary Committee just passed Sheldon’s bill to implement a binding code of ethics at the Supreme Court. We’re one major step closer t…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 19, 2023 at 3:55 PM

Finally...

a step toward bringing ethics reform to SCOTUS   I have great news, team. This week in the Judiciary Committee, my Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act will be marked up – meaning my colleagues and I will meet to debate and consider amendments for the bill before it advan…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 16, 2023 at 9:17 PM

From rising ocean temperatures to clouds of wildfire smoke

the effects of climate change are getting worse   Team, 90-plus degree ocean temperatures in Florida. The four hottest days in recorded history occurring consecutively in one week. Air quality alerts covering half the country. The window of opportunity to address climate change is still open,…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 14, 2023 at 7:24 PM

Add your name to protect the right of women

to cross state lines to seek abortion care   Team, Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and shredded a fundamental right for women to determine their bodily autonomy, states across the country have continued to attack women’s freedoms. The result? More and more women have to travel acr…
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  Jacky Rosen · [email protected]
July 10, 2023 at 7:47 PM

re: McConnell’s handpicked candidate

I needed to reach out directly: GOP extremist Sam Brown just launched his campaign to defeat me here in Nevada.   I needed to reach out directly, team: GOP extremist Sam Brown just launched his campaign to defeat me here in Nevada. Mitch McConnell handpicked him because he knows Brown will be h…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 9, 2023 at 8:42 PM

What's been going on at SCOTUS

& how we can fix it   Team, By now, you are probably aware of the news about Justice Alito and the freebie luxury fishing vacation in Alaska arranged for him by Court-capture operative Leonard Leo. Before ProPublica posted its exposé about the trip, Justice Alito took to the Wall Street Jour…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 7, 2023 at 5:44 PM

A fair, impartial judiciary

and what's at stake in 2024   Team, Last week, we saw the right wing of the Supreme Court end affirmative action in college admissions, strike down President Biden’s plan to eliminate student loan debt, and curtail the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans to shop in public stores. The ‘Court That Dark Mon…
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  [email protected] · [email protected]
June 30, 2023 at 5:33 PM

“Sheldon Whitehouse was right all along: The Supreme Court is corrupt”

What the Washington Post had to say about Sheldon’s work to expose the ethics crisis at SCOTUS   Team, “Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has been arguing for years that a flood of “dark money” flowing through right-wing front groups has corrupted the Supreme Court. Never has there been more evidence to b…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
June 28, 2023 at 10:58 PM

The Supreme Court’s final days of the term

Here's what's on the docket...   Team, Affirmative action. Student loan payments. LGBTQ+ Rights. These are just a few of the topics the Supreme Court is set to issue major rulings on over the coming days. But in the wake of a handful of ethical scandals at the Court all tied to right-wing billio…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
June 26, 2023 at 8:17 PM

Here we go again...

Yet another ethical bombshell at SCOTUS   Team, we're learning a whole lot about right-wing billionaire influence at the Supreme Court these days. ProPublica has released another scathing report – this one revealing how Court-capture operative Leonard Leo hooked up Justice Samuel Alito with rig…
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  Team Whitehouse · [email protected]
June 25, 2023 at 6:26 PM

The Voting Rights Act

On June 25, 2013…   Team, A decade ago, the Supreme Court tossed out a key part of the Voting Rights Act, sweeping in a new wave of laws meant to keep people from being able to exercise their right to vote. In his opinion at the time, Chief Justice Roberts said that the world had changed and e…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
June 24, 2023 at 4:26 PM

1 year

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade   Team, After right-wing megadonors spent hundreds of millions to stack the Supreme Court with anti-abortion justices, it all paid off for them when the Court trashed precedent and rescinded the right to abortion one year ago today. Abortion prot…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
June 20, 2023 at 4:16 PM

Happy Pride Month!

There’s nothing better than celebrating with Rhode Islanders at our annual Pride parade   Team, Rhode Island’s vibrant LGBTQ+ community has made so many contributions to our state. I love to march with Rhode Islanders at our Providence Pride parade, which I've joined just about every year I've b…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
June 16, 2023 at 4:18 PM

Democracy is on the line

A lot at stake in 2024   Team, I’m sure by now you’ve seen the news of Donald Trump’s federal indictment – he’s facing a total of 37 counts related to his handling of highly classified national security information after he left office. He’s the first former president to face federal charges. Du…
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  Bob Casey · [email protected]
June 12, 2023 at 3:11 PM

You know I had to bring back the map

Earning votes in every one of these counties is how we’ll win.   Team, Since I announced I’m running for re-election, you know what that means — the map is back! When Republicans look at this map, they see an opportunity to take back the Senate here in Pennsylvania. The NRSC is already launchin…
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  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
June 12, 2023 at 12:49 AM

The wildfire smoke that blanketed the East Coast

more trouble ahead caused by big polluters   Team, Our country is facing big challenges that can be traced back to the lies and obstruction churned out by the fossil fuel industry’s political apparatus. Members of the Republican Party whose campaigns get a lot of their funding from big polluters…
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