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The Supreme Court announced Monday it will adopt a code of ethics, the first in its history, as reports of undisclosed gifts from mega-rich backers plague Justice Clarence Thomas. The 14-page code is signed by each of the justices on the Supreme Court. 

Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats have sent letters to two wealthy businessmen and a major political activist requesting more information about undisclosed gifts to Supreme Court justices.

From its recent rulings to its billionaire donor scandals, this supreme court term has been defined by judicial activist Leonard Leo

Senate Judicial Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) has been forcefully calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a code of ethics. According to Durbin, reports from ProPublica on Justice Clarence Thomas' close relationship with billionaire GOP donor Harlan Crow and Justice Samuel Alito'

A report published Monday highlights potential connections between the political influence of Harlan Crow's family and the billionaire GOP megadonor's yearslong endeavor to shower U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with lavish vacations and other undisclosed gifts.

A series of new scandals has rocked the Supreme Court, including Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch profiting off secret, undisclosed real estate deals, including with a Republican megadonor who had business before the Court...

The last thing I said about the eldest member of the United States Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority almost certainly failed to lift your confidence in American democracy. I said that Justice Clarence Thomas is telling us he’s above the law, that there’s nothing we can do about it...

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) has sent Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts a strongly-worded invitation to testify over his “decade-long failure” to fix the ethics problems he and his justices have created which have created a “crisis of public confidence,”...

Both alarm and concern were expressed Saturday in response to new reporting about a charitable group with close ties to the U.S. Supreme Court that has been soliciting and accepting donations from corporate interests and far-right activists with cases before the court.

Three House Democrats are requesting the IRS "confirm" if gift taxes were paid by billionaire benefactors to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito after reports show both jurists received luxury vacations and other items of worth.

Former Bush White House ethics czar Richard Painter once coached Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts on ethics ahead of their confirmation hearings. Now, he is disgusted with the state of the court whose nominees he helped advise.

Opponents of unmitigated corporate power celebrated Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Norfolk Southern's attempt to limit where companies can be sued.

This is a breaking story… Please check back for possible updates...The U.S. Supreme Court's right-wing majority on Thursday severely curtailed protections for "waters of the United States." 

In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia.

A new poll indicates the U.S. Supreme Court, once at the top of the nation’s most respected national institutions, is plummeting in public approval, with neither Republicans nor Democrats satisfied with the nine justices or their legal opinions.

The ultimate swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court used to be Justice Anthony Kennedy, a right-wing libertarian and Ronald Reagan appointee who was fiscally conservative yet socially liberal and often sided with the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg...

On Saturday, CNN reported that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has chosen to not voluntarily testify before Senators who have questions about how the nation's highest court is dealing with the growing controversies swirling around Justice Clarence Thomas.

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet...