{"id":1983892,"date":"2023-07-27T07:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-ethics-group-likely-failed-to-disclose-lobbying-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T07:13:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T11:13:34","slug":"supreme-court-ethics-group-likely-failed-to-disclose-lobbying-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-ethics-group-likely-failed-to-disclose-lobbying-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court &#8216;ethics&#8217; group may have concealed lobbying, experts suggest."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-ethics-group-likely-failed-to-disclose-lobbying-experts-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1983892&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>EXCLUSIVE: Supreme Court Advocacy Group Accused of Violating Lobbying Laws<\/h2>\n<p>A Supreme Court advocacy group, Fix the Court, is facing allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-obama-fundraiser-confesses-to-misusing-600000-in-federal-grants-meant-for-poor-youth\/\" title=\"Top Obama Fundraiser Confesses To Misusing 0,000 in Federal Grants Meant for Poor Youth\">violating federal lobbying laws<\/a> while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zuckbucks-election-rigger-announces-plan-to-take-over-government-election-communications\/\" title=\"ZuckBucks Election Rigger Announces Plan To Take Over Government Election Communications\">demanding greater transparency<\/a> from justices, including Clarence Thomas and Samuel\u200d Alito. Experts suggest that the\u2064 group failed to disclose \u2062its own apparent lobbying activities, potentially\u2062 undermining its credibility as a\u2064 watchdog organization.<\/p>\n<p>Fix\u2062 the Court, formerly a project of\u2062 the New Venture Fund,\u200b has been leading a coordinated campaign to push for \u2062more financial\u2063 disclosure from Supreme Court justices. However, tax lawyers have pointed out that the organization itself may \u200dhave engaged \u200bin grassroots lobbying without reporting it on their \u2062financial disclosures.<\/p>\n<h3>Transparency Questions Surround Fix the Court<\/h3>\n<p>The failure to disclose lobbying activities could raise questions \u2062about Fix the Court&#8217;s \u2062commitment to transparency. In a recent incident, the group&#8217;s Executive Director, Gabe Roth, accidentally leaked the names of their donors, which included liberal entities. Despite this, Senate Democrats have supported \u2062a bill called\u200b the \u200dSupreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act, which\u200d Fix the Court endorses.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans have accused Fix the Court \u2064of hypocrisy, as the organization has criticized justices for not reporting financial matters while failing to disclose\u200c their own lobbying activities. The Washington Examiner discovered multiple\u2063 instances where Fix the \u200cCourt urged the public to demand certain measures, which experts believe could be\u200d considered\u200c grassroots lobbying.<\/p>\n<h3>Potential Penalties and \u2063Loss of Tax-Exempt Status<\/h3>\n<p>Experts warn that Fix the Court could face\u2063 penalties from the IRS if \u200cit is found to have failed to report its lobbying activities. Charities that \u200dengage in excessive lobbying may also risk losing their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leah-remini-says-her-16-year-old-daughter-keeps-her-woke\/\" title=\"Leah Remini Says Her 16-Year-Old Daughter Keeps Her \u2018Woke\u2019\">tax-exempt status<\/a>. Tax lawyers\u2063 have identified several calls to action by \u2063Fix the Court\u2062 that appear to constitute grassroots lobbying, including\u2063 advocating for free court filings and endorsing measures like the Open Courts Act and the Cameras in the \u2064Courtroom Act.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being cited by Democratic lawmakers and media \u200doutlets as a leading\u200b voice for increased disclosure requirements, Fix the \u200bCourt&#8217;s website has several broken links.\u200c Additionally, some of the organization&#8217;s posts redirect to an error message hosted by NGP VAN, a\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-ethics-group-likely-failed-to-disclose-lobbying-experts-say\/\" title=\"Supreme Court 'ethics' group may have concealed lobbying, experts suggest.\">web hosting service provider<\/a> for the Democratic\u2064 Party.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Walter, president of the conservative investigative think tank Capital \u200bResearch Center, criticized \u200cFix the Court as a &#8220;cheap, partisan operation&#8221; and called on fellow\u2064 Democrats to stop citing the group as a legitimate source on ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Fix the Court did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Experts suggest that Fix the Court, a charity formerly associated with the New Venture Fund, may have violated federal law by not disclosing its own lobbying activities while accusing Supreme Court justices, including Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, of ethics violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}