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CNN  —  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ended a monthslong saga last week by officially disclosing trips paid for by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. The incident brought to light a key fact: Unlike other federal courts and the executive and legislative branches, the US Supreme Court does not have a formal ethics code. Americans, it turns out, don’t think the …

September is Suicide Prevention Month, a time to raise awareness about mental health resources, provide education on saving lives from suicide and encourage everyone to learn what role they can play in suicide prevention. The Kim Foundation, which works to increase awareness about mental health and suicide prevention in Nebraska, is engaging with the month by sharing resources and participating …

Las Vegas Democrat Assemblywoman Michelle Gorelow has announced she is not seeking reelection next year after it was revealed that she voted to appropriate $250 thousand to a non-profit weeks before that very same organization hired her as its executive director. Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Taylor Avery broke the initial story, but it was the pro-Lombardo Better Nevada PAC that did …

CNN  —  Soon after he became chief justice of the United States, John Roberts faced what he believed was a “crisis” involving the judiciary: Federal judges were underpaid. What Roberts did next to address the situation stands in stark contrast to the way he has tiptoed through the current controversy over the Supreme Court’s integrity. As he pushed for a …

LOS ANGELES — Months before she became the center of political controversy, community advocate Jamie York was fighting for greater transparency in Los Angeles’ government.  After a devastating unanimous vote to sink her appointment to LA’s Ethics Commission, she’s even more adamant the city’s biggest policy decisions are influenced by lobbyists in secret.  “What I’ve come to learn is that …

Recent revelations show that a state lawmaker was hired as the executive director of a non-profit just one month after voting to appropriate hundreds of thousands of dollars to that very same organization. Better Nevada PAC Director of Operations John Burke tells us they open records requested communications between Democratic Assemblywoman Michelle Gorelow and Arc of Nevada after it was …

SAN ANTONIO — Vanessa Fears is worried her daughter’s school will close for good.  “Just overwhelmed. What am I going to do? Trying to figure out a plan, it’s just a matter of time,” Fears said. “My little one just started walking this year, which helps out a lot because I can get to work. I have to be there …

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Democratic justice on North Carolina’s Republican-majority Supreme Court sued an ethics panel Tuesday to block it from investigating her public comments about state courts and colleagues, saying the probe and other recent scrutiny violate her free speech rights. Associate Justice Anita Earls filed the federal lawsuit against the state Judicial Standards Commission, which is charged …

Should the Aug. 21 proposal eventually become reality, the majority of the commission’s members would either be state-level GOP politicians or their designees. That political makeup was “not necessarily” part of Warren’s consideration, he said, but a product of the county’s deep red politics. “The culture determines the law,” he said, adding, “the culture elects who they elect.”  However, the …

SANTA ANA, Calif. — California’s attorney general sued a Southern California school district Monday over its new policy requiring schools to notify parents if their children change their gender identification or pronouns, the latest blow in an intensifying battle between a handful of school districts and the state about the rights of trans kids and their parents. Attorney General Rob …