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We're a watchdog group defending our democracy. True North is led by @thelisagraves.bsky.social. You can find our work at truenorthresearch.org.

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Somil Trivedi @somilbtrivedi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The corruption that’s eating America alive doesn’t stop with Trump. Supreme Court Justices aren’t above accountability. And my killer research colleagues at @truenorthresearch.bsky.social won’t stop pushing for it. Another banger.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Leonard Leo’s fingerprints are all over conservative groups’ latest attempt to secure the fossil fuel industry’s preferred outcome in the upcoming climate liability case before SCOTUS, Suncor v. Boulder. The argument here is a flimsy attempt to distract from Alito's actual conflicts of interest.
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Conservative groups demand Kagan recuse herself from climate case
The groups accuse the Supreme Court justice of endorsing climate science by writing the foreword to a judicial reference manual.
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Court Accountability Action @courtacctability.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“[Billionaires] knew that they could not win at the ballot box what they could win if they could capture this court.” - Court Accountability Co-Founder, @thelisagraves.bsky.social at Netroots Nation '26
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Court Accountability Action @courtacctability.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
As Senator @sheldon made it clear at our Netroots Nation panel this weekend, "inch by inch, step by step, Republican Supreme Court justices have opened the door to corporate political influence." This is a long history of corruption that enriches an elite few that won’t end until we fight back.
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Education Law Center @edlawcenter.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Learn about the expansive role of dangerous and unregulated scholarship granting organizations (SGOs) under the federal school voucher scheme during PFPS's 5/12 webinar. @itep.org @truenorthresearch.bsky.social @neatoday.bsky.social Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Education Law Center @edlawcenter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Register now for PFPS's next webinar, "No Accountability, No Transparency: Scholarship Granting Organizations under the Federal Voucher Program." pfps.org/no-accountab...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.
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Alliance for Justice @afj.org · 16/04/2026
Why can't Trump's lawyer simply answer Senator Durbin's very straightforward question of who won the 2020 election? #StopJustinSmith #UnfitAndUnqualified @durbin.senate.gov
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 31/03/2026
Restoring legislative supremacy is not just a nerdy legal thing. Saving US science and innovation depends on it. The core change killing NIH, NSF, and cancer research and cures this year is the president taking control of these agencies. @nataliebaviles.bsky.social and I wrote abt this: 1/
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Ohio Fair Courts Alliance @ohfaircourts.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Check out the recording from yesterday's Buying the Bench. Thank you to the indomitable Lisa Graves & intrepid researcher Evan Vorpahl for walking us through dark $ and its impact on the Ohio Supreme Court. @thelisagraves.bsky.social @truenorthresearch.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zsr...
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Buying the Bench: Uncovering Dark Money Donors in the 2024 Race for Ohio Supreme Court - 3/4/26
YouTube video by Common Cause Ohio
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Trump nominated judges (& the Roberts #SCOTUS) "are behaving differently from their Republican peers in a way that consistently benefits Trump. The simplest explanation is the correct one: they were selected not for their legal reasoning, but for their loyalty." "not conservativism. It’s fealty."↘️
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Alex Aronson: The Reality of Trump’s Rigged Courts
Can we count on the judiciary to save us? Here's what the data says
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Finally, a Supreme Court Accountability Mechanism... for Clerks By @courtacctability.bsky.social 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/courtacc...
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Finally, a Supreme Court Accountability Mechanism... for Clerks
The Roberts Court moves further into the shadows—and highlights the toothlessness of its own code of conduct along the way
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Full conversation with @thelisagraves.bsky.social and @mspopok.bsky.social:
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Judge Luttig TEARS Into Supreme Court’s Trump COWARDNESS
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Evan Vorpahl, True North's Director of State Courts and Democracy joins Court Accountability Action's Alyssa Bowen to discuss the far-right billionaires trying to buy up state supreme courts. @courtacctability.bsky.social @alyssabowen.bsky.social @truenorthresearch.bsky.social
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MAGA PANICS as GOP Supreme Court SLIPS AWAY in Pennsylvania
YouTube video by Legal AF
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flowestack.bsky.social @flowestack.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @truenorthresearch.bsky.social
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Conservative legal group aims to export its rightwing Christian mission beyond US borders
Alliance Defending Freedom has ramped up its global spending on litigation and other campaigns to push its ultra conservative Christian values
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 15/01/2026
In spring 2024, Noah Rosenblum and I looked into what a potential Trump administration could do — and was signaling that it /would do/ — to American science. We never published this, but reread it recently and decided to share. The major threats have not changed.
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The Supreme Court’s Approach to Government Threatens American Science [April 2024]
In spring 2024, Noah Rosenblum and I wrote this essay about how US science could be threatened by a potential second Trump administration. We ultimately never published it, in part because we didn't want to give any hints to Trump allies about how to attack US science. In retrospect, it
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.” This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
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This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
NEW in @prospect.org from @hannahstoryb.bsky.social: as Exxon once again seeks the help of the Supreme Court to avoid being held accountable for decades of climate deception, Alito isn't the only justice whose oily ties and inconsistent recusals raise serious ethics questions.
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Exxon’s Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary - The American Prospect
Oil companies insist that if cases are allowed to proceed, it could have major ramifications for the future of their industry. Will a Supreme Court willing to grant Trump immunity for his crimes do th...
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reginaldedward3 @reginaldedward3.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I absolutely cannot and will not accept the Roberts court assertion that this current environment is what the framers had in mind. A lawless President, a dysfunctional and corrupt legislative, judicial (SCOTUS) and executive branch. This cannot stand
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True North @truenorthresearch.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Twenty years after John Roberts promised to call “balls and strikes,” it’s now clear that the fair “umpire" was a concocted image from day one.
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True North @truenorthresearch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Check out True North’s new primer designed to provide a basic orientation to the major strands inside and outside of government seeking to establish and entrench authoritarian governance ❌ and what we can do to counter them 💪 truenorthresearch.org/2025/07/true...
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True North Issues New Primer on the Authoritarian Infrastructure in the U.S. —
By Lisa Graves and Alyssa Bowen A partisan Supreme Court, a complicit political party, and an ongoing assault on key pillars of civil society are some of the factors contributing to the rise of author...
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🚨🔥🚨 BRAND NEW "Primer on Authoritarian Infrastructure in the United States." Meet the funders, networks, and operatives weaponizing our government against us. From @truenorthresearch.bsky.social @thelisagraves.bsky.social @alyssabowen.bsky.social truenorthresearch.org/2025/07/true...
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True North Issues New Primer on the Authoritarian Infrastructure in the U.S. —
By Lisa Graves and Alyssa Bowen A partisan Supreme Court, a complicit political party, and an ongoing assault on key pillars of civil society are some of the factors contributing to the rise of author...
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People’s Parity Project @peoplesparity.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
States have played an undeniable role in the rise of authoritarianism. Join us at #PPP25 for an important panel on how we fight back, with @thelisagraves.bsky.social @truenorthresearch.bsky.social & @nadinesmith.bsky.social @equalityfl.bsky.social Register ▶️ actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
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Court Accountability Action @courtacctability.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"It may have taken the antiabortion machine nearly 50 years to overturn Roe, but that network has since redoubled its efforts... As such, the future of mifepristone access is uncertain as ever." @truenorthresearch.bsky.social's latest in Ms. Magazine: msmagazine.com/2025/06/23/t...
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Three Years After Dobbs, a Coordinated Campaign Aims to Eliminate Abortion Pills Nationwide
Medication abortion has become the most popular form of abortion in the U.S. post-Dobbs, providing potentially lifesaving access to people residing in states with abortion bans in place. Because of th...
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Court Accountability Action @courtacctability.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"The legal future of abortion pills remains uncertain, but what is clear is that revoking access to mifepristone is key in the antiabortion machine’s fight to maintain control over pregnant Americans’ bodies and lives." @truenorthresearch.bsky.social's latest: msmagazine.com/2025/06/23/t...
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Three Years After Dobbs, a Coordinated Campaign Aims to Eliminate Abortion Pills Nationwide
Medication abortion has become the most popular form of abortion in the U.S. post-Dobbs, providing potentially lifesaving access to people residing in states with abortion bans in place. Because of th...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/05/2025
NEW: Virginia's GOP nominee for governor Winsome Earle-Sears recently claimed that she never supported limiting abortion access. But she: *endorsed a 15-week ban after Roe fell *said abortion should be illegal in almost all cases *suggested consent to sex is consent to pregnancy in audio I obtained
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GOP nominee for Virginia governor tries to distance herself from anti-abortion past
Winsome Earle-Sears has called abortion ‘genocide’ and suggested equivalence between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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The Same Anti-Abortion Machine That Led the Effort to Overturn Roe is Now Focused on Defunding Planned Parenthood
Subscribe to Court Accountability’s newsletter, Tilted Scales, here.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
BREAKING: By an evenly divided vote, the Supreme Court affirms an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision blocking the creation of a Catholic charter school. Barrett recused, allowing for the deadlock. We don't know which conservative joined the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Nos. 24–394 and 24–396
OKLAHOMA STATEWIDE CHARTER SCHOOL
BOARD, ET AL., PETITIONERS
24–394 v.
GENTNER DRUMMOND, ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF OKLAHOMA, EX REL. OKLAHOMA
ST. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE CATHOLIC VIRTUAL
SCHOOL, PETITIONER
24–396 v.
GENTNER DRUMMOND, ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF OKLAHOMA, EX REL. OKLAHOMA
ON WRITS OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF OKLAHOMA
[May 22, 2025]
PER CURIAM.
The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.
 JUSTICE BARRETT took no part in the consideration or decision of these cases.
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Court Accountability Action @courtacctability.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Trump doesn't think trans people have the “humility or selflessness” required to be in the military, but protects Pete Hegseth. So who exactly is endangering our national security and who is the “patriot”? Check out our latest in Tilted Scales: courtaccountability.substack.com/p/scotus-def...
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SCOTUS Defers to Hate
No Reasons Needed
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Lisa Graves @thelisagraves.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Please check out our new Substack channel for our joint effort, Legal AF, and subscribe. @mspopok.bsky.social @alexaronson.bsky.social @truenorthresearch.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lega...
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True North @truenorthresearch.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Some interesting stuff in the 990 @propublica.org recently posted of Leonard Leo's billion dollar slush fund, Marble Freedom Trust. 👀https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/850784793/202510769349300031/full
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Marble Freedom Trust, Full Filing - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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Billy Corriher @billycorriher.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Judge Jefferson Griffin wants to steal a high court seat. And he could get away with it. I spoke with @alexaronson.bsky.social about it. youtu.be/mlgxiypocjU?... #ncpol #meidastouch @truenorthresearch.bsky.social
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GOP Still Won't Let Supreme Court LOSS GO in NC
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Call it a gulag. A concentration camp. A torture chamber. Trump told El Salvador to build more for American citizens who dissent. Thanks for this vivid description by Lisa Graves, fellow co-host of @thefive8andahalf.bsky.social and strategic researcher @truenorthresearch.bsky.social
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