{"id":2016898,"date":"2023-08-30T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-linked-supreme-court-ethics-group-scrubs-lobbying-posts-from-website\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T14:41:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:41:23","slug":"democratic-linked-supreme-court-ethics-group-scrubs-lobbying-posts-from-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-linked-supreme-court-ethics-group-scrubs-lobbying-posts-from-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Supreme Court &#8216;ethics&#8217; group removes lobbying posts from website."},"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%2Fdemocratic-linked-supreme-court-ethics-group-scrubs-lobbying-posts-from-website%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=2016898&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 \u2063Court\u200b &#8220;Ethics&#8221; Watchdog Scrubs Website of Undisclosed\u200c Lobbying<\/h2>\n<p>A Supreme Court &#8220;ethics&#8221; watchdog, Fix\u200c the Court, has come \u200cunder scrutiny for alleged ethics violations. Recently, it was revealed that the organization failed to report lobbying\u2064 on tax\u200c forms in 2021 and 2022. To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-financial-bubbles-that-made-gamestop-look-like-nothing\/\" title=\"5 Financial \u2018Bubbles\u2019 That Made Gamestop Look Like Nothing\">make matters worse<\/a>, Fix the Court has \u2062now removed blog posts from its website that appeared to\u2062 demonstrate its lobbying efforts during those years. This revelation has raised questions \u2064about the organization&#8217;s transparency and adherence to federal\u2063 law.<\/p>\n<h3>Watchdog&#8217;s Lack of Disclosure Raises Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>Fix the \u200bCourt, which advocates for justices to disclose\u200b more\u2062 about\u2064 their finances, has faced criticism for its failure \u2063to accurately \u2063report its own lobbying activities. Charity experts have accused the organization of\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-democrats-are-weaponizing-nonprofits-to-run-partisan-voter-registration-drives\/\" title=\"Report: Democrats Are Weaponizing Nonprofits To Run Partisan Voter Registration Drives\">skirting federal law<\/a>\u2063 by checking\u200c &#8220;no&#8221;\u200c on tax forms when asked if it lobbied in 2021 and 2022. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-linked-supreme-court-ethics-group-scrubs-lobbying-posts-from-website\/\" title=\"Democratic Supreme Court 'ethics' group removes lobbying posts from website.\">amended tax forms filed<\/a>\u2063 by Fix the Court now confirm that it did engage in lobbying during those years.<\/p>\n<p>The executive director of Fix the Court, Gabe Roth, admitted the organization&#8217;s mistake and acknowledged that they directly lobbied members \u200dof Congress and engaged\u2063 in grassroots lobbying. This includes efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">influence public opinion<\/a> and encourage individuals to contact their representatives in support of specific bills.<\/p>\n<h3>Website Changes Raise Further Questions<\/h3>\n<p>Fix the\u2063 Court&#8217;s recent removal of blog \u2064posts from its website has raised eyebrows. These posts, \u200csuch as &#8220;The\u200b Judiciary Must \u200dDo\u2064 More to Prevent\u200d Harassment\u200c in the\u200b Courthouse,&#8221; appeared to \u200ddemonstrate the organization&#8217;s grassroots lobbying efforts. Additionally, Fix the Court publicly \u200cendorsed legislation like the Judiciary Accountability Act and the Open Courts Act, further suggesting its involvement in lobbying activities.<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u200b the organization&#8217;s\u200b attempts to address its lack of transparency, critics have pointed out \u200dthe irony of Fix the Court calling out justices for their own disclosure problems while failing to get its own disclosures right. Senate Republicans have decried the watchdog&#8217;s\u2063 hypocrisy, highlighting its efforts to criticize justices like \u200cClarence Thomas and Samuel Alito for their alleged lack of transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Fix the Court&#8217;s compliance\u200d issues have also drawn attention to \u200dits \u200cdonors, \u200bincluding\u200b the New \u2063Venture \u2063Fund, the William and Flora\u2063 Hewlett Foundation, and the\u2062 Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The organization initially\u2062 faced backlash after inadvertently leaking its donor list and was later hit with an IRS \u2063complaint over allegations \u2062of illegal overpayment \u200dto \u2063its executive director.<\/p>\n<p>While\u2062 Fix the Court\u2063 has acknowledged its mistakes and\u200d pledged to improve compliance, questions\u2063 remain about its credibility and commitment to transparency. As the organization works to rectify its errors, it is clear that\u2063 greater\u200d scrutiny will be placed on \u200cits activities moving forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court ethics watchdog, Fix the Court, removed blog posts from its website that were linked to undisclosed lobbying activities. The charity, which separated from the nonprofit New Venture Fund managed by Arabella Advisors, is under scrutiny for alleged ethics violations. Gabe Roth, the Executive Director, is facing criticism over the organization&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2016899,"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-2016898","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\/2016898","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=2016898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}