Supreme Court is losing legitimacy as public sees it as partisan

https://thehill.com/opinion/3781656-press-time-to-shake-up-the-supreme-court/

Ethics code is needed.

Charlie Cooper

Focus may shift to executive action to promote democracy

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3774044-voters-turned-out-to-support-democracy-president-biden-must-lead-from-here/

Co-heads of Declaration for American Democracy call on Biden to institute executive actions (like a disclosure requirement for federal contractors) now that House of Representatives is in Republican hands.

Charlie Cooper

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Petition to support Supreme Court code of ethics

https://standupamerica.com/action/letter-scotus-ethics-dec22/?akid=9272.1266661.9TlptP&rd=1&t=1&utm_content=&utm_medium=email

The timing of this would seem to be late. Why are they doing this now?

Charlie Cooper

Democrats plan state-level voting rights initiatives

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/us/politics/democrats-voting-rights.html#commentsContainer

Dems have won power in PA, MI, and MN and plan to pass laws for automatic voter registration, pre-registration of high-school students, and protection of election workers.

Charlie Cooper

Specific suggestions for strengthening election administration

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/12/22/opinion-election-deniers-lost-in-2022-but-havent-gone-away-heres-what-to-do-next-to-protect-democracy/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6daa7bce-ece5-4233-b2df-8c47fdac38f3

The writer is a Maryland Democratic Party operative in charge of election protection. He calls for specific steps to protect election workers and the process of counting ballots.

Charlie Cooper

Good overview of Supreme Court ethics breaches

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/new-allegations-of-a-leak-by-justice-alito-underscore-the-need-for-supreme-court-reform/

Thanks to Steve Pressman of Indivisible Montgomery

Leonard Leo helped Trump aide financially while Supreme Court nomination was pending

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/20/trump-conway-leonard-leo-00074690

Right-wing judicial activist Leonard facilitated a deal whereby Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway sold her company to Creative Response Concepts while she was involved in picking a nominee for the Supreme Court.

"It appears Leo, via one of his dark money groups, helped finance the transaction between the firm, Creative Response Concepts Inc., and Conway — worth between $1 million and $5 million, according to experts citing the timing of the transactions filed through the same attorney and bank. At the time, CRC was also bringing in millions of dollars from dark money groups to promote Leo's picks. "

Charlie Cooper

Schumer will put electoral count reform into omnibus budget bill

https://www.timeswv.com/news/national_news/bill-to-protect-electoral-vote-counts-could-pass-next-week/article_7e949082-7d7c-11ed-9d96-67428afd396b.html

Charlie

Amid record spending for midterms, dark money & billionaire money soar

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/4-takeaways-about-money-midterms

State and local elections cost $16.7 billion, but dark money would make that figure higher if it could all be counted. Portland, ME, and Oakland, CA passed public financing ballot measures, and Arizona passed a disclosure measure. All 3 measure passed by at least 65%.

Charlie Cooper

Allegations of voter suppression in Florida

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/community-voices/opinion-failure-to-provide-context-explanation-evident-in-coverage-of-desantis-victory-M7W7VIU77BCR3HSD2M7QRXNSSQ/

The author alleges that voters were purged illegally and had their party designation changed from Democrat to Republican without their permission.

Charlie Cooper

Republicans ISL theory could backfire

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/gop-argument-redistricting-backfire/

The author explains that Republicans have already exploited partisan gerrymandering to a greater extent than states with Democratic-dominated legislatures. California's commission could be thrown out,  yielding several new Democratic seats. Maryland's court decision could yield an even more Democratic-leaning map. His survey indicates a gain of up to 15 seats for Democrats.

Charlie Cooper

What Moore v. Harper could mean

https://fairvote.org/what-the-moore-v-harper-decision-could-mean/

The author thinks that Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Roberts are struggling to find a compromise path to rule in favor of a limited ISL Theory. Some 200 state commissions and high court rulings stand to  be overturned if a full-throated ISL is adopted.

Charlie Cooper

Maryland fair districts advocate opposes ISL

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/12/07/opinion-could-supreme-court-case-give-md-democrats-greater-license-to-gerrymander/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=b73388a4-4dfd-4551-9d2e-a52c2d314c28 

Charlie Cooper 

Facebook's automated software accepted are threatening to kill election workers

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/technology/facebook-ads-threats.html 

Researched submitted ads. They pulled the ones that were approved before publication. Other social media companies performed better.

Charlie Cooper

Dark money means we don't know

https://popular.info/p/sbfs-political-scam?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email 

Crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried now says he lied about being partial to Democrats in distributing teens of millions in the remember election. We must ban dark money.

Charlie Cooper