Today the DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling and opinion in Schilling v. Speaker, a lawsuit filed citing the under the Common Law Right of Access to record as detailed, e.g., here, about the use by House Oversight Committee and its subcommittee Chair Ro Khanna of ‘staff’ provided by outside activist donors to […]
Hill Investigations
‘Sheldon has not been well managed’
CLW sees this paper just published by the Senate, ah, Budget Committee picking up the mantle of the donor-staffed (in violation of House Ethics Rules) House Oversight Committee investigation into energy companies daring to resist brigandage. CLW spotted this own-goal right up front. Hey, that phrase sounds familiar. CLW recalls a set of handwritten notes […]
Which Time You Guys Telling the Truth?
CLW notices a very strange item in the Washington Examiner’s Daily on Energy: Uh huh. Whoa. So, how did the plaintiffs’ bar get them? And, what gives… have the plaintiffs’ bar not signed off on sharing the docs with the Senate that the House Oversight Committee went and got for them? They’re theirs, is that […]
DC Circuit Hears Argument re: Transparency When Congress Transgresses
Argument before federal appeals court panel examines whether public can see correspondence pertaining to donor-provided ‘staff’ to drive investigation of political opponents in aid of outside interests CLW readers are familiar with Schilling v. Speaker, the common law right of access lawsuit seeking records about the sordid affair of House Oversight Committee Chair Maloney and […]
Congressional Inquiry Into Climate Litigation Industry
CLW readers will recognize the themes set forth in this letter, sent today by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Ranking Senate Commerce Committee member Sen. Ted Cruz and reported first here. While addressed to a law firm engaged by numerous progressive elected officials—to which these politicians promised so many millions out of their […]