Supreme Court Justices

Supreme Court Justices

Federal Judicial System Faces Unprecedented Integrity Challenge

| Importance: 9/10

In June 2025, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Judicial Independence, Margaret Satterthwaite, released a groundbreaking report documenting systematic attacks on the U.S. federal judiciary. The report detailed executive branch efforts to intimidate judges, including public denigration, …

Margaret Satterthwaite UN Special Rapporteur Supreme Court Justices Sen. Cory Booker Department of Justice +1 more judicial-independence constitutional-crisis intimidation separation-of-powers international-human-rights +1 more
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Congressional Hearing Exposes Systematic Judicial Intimidation Tactics

| Importance: 9/10

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a critical hearing investigating unprecedented threats to judicial independence in 2025, documenting rising levels of violence, intimidation, disinformation, and defiance of lawful court judgments. Testimony revealed a disturbing pattern of physical threats, …

Senate Judiciary Committee Chief Justice John Roberts U.S. Marshals Service Supreme Court Justices Dick Durbin +5 more judicial-intimidation constitutional-crisis judicial-independence congressional-oversight threats-to-democracy
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Federal Judiciary Responds to Mounting Constitutional Threats in Emergency Closed-Door Conference

| Importance: 9/10

In an unprecedented response to mounting threats and potential constitutional crisis, federal judges convened emergency discussions in March 2025 to address challenges to judicial independence. The Judicial Conference, the national policymaking body for federal courts, held closed-door meetings …

Federal Judiciary Leadership Judge Richard Sullivan U.S. Marshals Service Judicial Conference Leadership Federal District Court Judges +1 more judicial-independence constitutional-crisis judicial-security separation-of-powers threat-management
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Investigation Reveals $6.6 Million in Gifts to Supreme Court Justices

| Importance: 9/10

Fix the Court database documents 672 gifts worth $6.6 million to 18 current and former justices between 2004-2023, with Thomas receiving majority from Harlan Crow

Supreme Court Justices Fix the Court Harlan Crow Paul Singer Clarence Thomas +1 more judicial-corruption gift-disclosure ethics-violation systematic-corruption investigation-findings
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Systematic Coordination Emerges in Corporate PAC Explosion Post-Buckley

| Importance: 9/10

By the year 2000, sophisticated legal strategies emerge revealing how corporate political action committees (PACs) systematically exploit legal loopholes from the Buckley v. Valeo Supreme Court decision. Wealthy donors and industry actors develop intricate mechanisms to circumvent campaign finance …

Corporate PAC Strategists Campaign Finance Lawyers Political Fundraising Experts Supreme Court Justices regulatory-capture institutional-corruption campaign-finance supreme-court political-spending +1 more
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