Scrub the Court

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined to recuse from a case Monday involving a conservative group that spent at least a million dollars supporting her Senate confirmation despite Democrats calling on her to do so because of the alleged conflict of interest it posed.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, a case brought by the conservative-leaning Americans for Prosperity Foundation challenging a California policy requiring charities to disclose their donors to the state, which the group alleged violates the First Amendment.

Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a conservative advocacy group backed by billionaire David Koch—which is separate from but linked to the foundation, which focuses on education—launched a major ad campaign urging senators to back Barrett’s confirmation last year, on which they said they planned to spend “seven figures.”

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Barrett heard the case Monday and did not offer any public statement on her decision to do so, and the Supreme Court has not yet responded to a request for comment on Barrett’s decision not to recuse.

The justice appeared skeptical of the California policy and signaled she may be likely to side with the Americans for Prosperity Foundation during the hearing, telling an attorney for the state of California to “assume that I think these petitioners have shown a substantial burden” the policy imposes on their First Amendment rights.

Whitehouse’s office [...] called the justice’s decision not to recuse “another dent in the Court’s credibility.”

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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.