BREAKING: Fox News just released stunning new polling that shows 61% of Americans now believe the economy is on the wrong track under Donald Trump’s leadership. Wow.
BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts hit with SURPRISE DISBARMENT complaint over undisclosed $20M conflict of interest.
John Roberts has spent two decades attempting to position himself as the Supreme Court's institutional conscience — the careful steward protecting the Court's legitimacy.
Now, a bombshell investigation reveals he may have been protecting something else entirely: his household's $20 million in income from the very law firms arguing cases before him — and an independent journalist named Christopher Armitage is filing a disbarment proceeding against the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court because of it.
The facts are not in dispute. Roberts's wife Jane earned $10,323,842.70 in documented commissions over seven years at a legal recruiting firm — placing senior lawyers at firms that then argued hundreds of cases before her husband's court. For sixteen consecutive years, Roberts mislabeled this commission income as "salary" on his mandatory federal disclosure forms. He omitted his wife's equity stake in her employer for three consecutive years, later attributing it to "inadvertence." He never recused himself from a single one of the 500-plus cases argued by firms paying his household.
Richard Painter — chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, the man who prepared Roberts for his confirmation hearings — said Roberts "fudged the details, misleadingly describing his wife's earnings as salary." A legal ethics professor retained by a whistleblower concluded the false characterization is "incorrect as a matter of law."
Federal statute is unambiguous. Title 5 makes willful false disclosure a civil violation — $50,000 per count. Title 18 makes knowing false statements to the federal government a felony — five years per count. Title 28 mandates recusal when a spouse has a financial interest in firms before the court. Roberts appears to have violated all three, repeatedly, across two decades.
In response, Roberts designed the Court's first ethics code himself — and engineered it to have no enforcement mechanism, no complaint process, and no sanctions authority. The Brennan Center called it "designed to fail." He declined a Senate Judiciary Committee invitation to testify, citing separation of powers.
Now, Armitage has filed the disbarment complaint and is inviting every American to do the same. The DC Bar accepts public complaints. The address is 515 Fifth Street NW, Building A, Room 117, Washington DC 20001. The relevant rule is DC Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(c). The relevant statutes are 28 U.S.C. § 455, 5 U.S.C. § 13106, and 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
Clarence Thomas took luxury vacations. Samuel Alito took private flights. John Roberts took law firm money through his wife's commission checks and called it salary for sixteen years.
The system they built assumes nobody is paying attention, but not only is Christopher Armitage paying attention, but the rest of us are too.
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A federal judge is raising concerns about whether Donald Trump's attempt to sue the IRS for $10 billion can proceed, signaling she could throw out the case because the president oversees the government entities he is suing. https://t.co/vdT1Fc0VPI
BREAKING: Experts SOUND ALARM after Trump issues memo that could allow his staff to delete millions of White House emails in violation of record preservation laws.
The timing alone should set off alarm bells. The Trump administration is currently being challenged in court over its preservation of government documents. And this week, it issued new internal guidance that a leading archives expert says gives White House staff "license to do the exact opposite" of preserving records.
The memo, issued by White House Counsel David Alan Warrington to Executive Office of the President staffers, represents a "significant departure from historical practice" — Warrington's own words. It quietly rewrites the rules around which communications need to be saved and how.
University of Maryland professor Jason R. Baron, who specializes in archives and the law, read the memo and sounded the alarm immediately. The new guidance, he told the Washington Post, provides nothing that "prevents the White House from directing the transfer or destruction of White House records, including tens of millions of emails, either before or after the end of the president's second term in office."
The key sleight of hand is buried in the language. The memo says EOP components are "free to retain" previous record-preservation policies. As Baron points out, that also means they are free not to. Text messages now only need to be preserved "when they are the sole record of official decision-making" — and staffers are merely "encouraged" to memorialize those exchanges in another format rather than preserving the original exchange directly.
Translation: if someone decides a text isn't the "sole record" of something, they can delete it. And nobody has to take a screenshot.
Federal law is unambiguous. Presidents and their staff are required to preserve records related to government activity and turn them over to the National Archives at the end of each administration. Warrington’s memo, however, doesn't clarify whether these records will actually be turned over, and doesn't specify how Trump or Vance will personally preserve their own records.
This is the administration that used Signal to discuss active military strikes in a chat that included a journalist. The administration that has fired numerous inspectors general. The administration that is fighting records requests in court while issuing internal guidance that makes destruction discretionary.
"While paying lip service to the need to preserve White House records," Baron said, "the memo actually gives EOP staff license to do the exact opposite." Nixon erased 18 minutes of tape. Trump's team may be preparing to erase tens of millions of emails.
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President Donald Trump, known for popularizing the term "fake news," seems to have shifted focus to a healthy dose of fake math in defending impossibly large cuts to prescription drug prices. https://t.co/rGwfCr2o81
@JoshHall2024 Please provide any evidence that she's done anything illegal. Trump still hasn't learned that merely accusing doesn't hold up in court, you must have proof. That's why the courts consistently sued against him when he alleged election fraud. Because there was no proof
@OccupyDemocrats THAT'S what it finally takes to get you to stop supporting him? "Blaspheming" against a god we have no proof exists? Not the irreparable and heinous things he's doing in this world that we know is real?