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President Trump quietly denied nearly 6,000 clemency applications this month from federal prisoners who followed the rules and waited their turn. Meanwhile, a parallel economy has emerged where politi...
Four anonymous tips allege Kandiyohi County, Minnesota social workers, CASA volunteers, and court mediators have for a decade blocked children of color from reunifying with qualified relatives. The cl...
A Texas criminal court judge who livestreams her proceedings on YouTube has been publicly warned by the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct after threatening a defendant on camera, injecting he...
Jefferson County Probate Judge Yashiba Blanchard — suspended from the bench since May — appeared in court this week for the first time since a 120-page judicial ethics complaint was filed against her....
Three years after being sanctioned for creating an 'overly harsh' work environment, U.S. Circuit Judge Sarah Merriam of the Second Circuit has been disciplined again — this time for fostering a 'cultu...
In a 4-3 decision, the Louisiana Supreme Court permanently removed East Baton Rouge Parish Judge Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts from the bench after finding she fabricated her military record to win an elec...
A wave of misconduct by Justice Department attorneys is testing the courts' long-standing habit of trusting federal prosecutors. As judges accuse government lawyers of gaslighting them and the departm...
As the Senate advanced landmark cryptocurrency legislation, Democrats pushed to bar elected officials and their families from profiting off digital assets — a rule that would fall squarely on a presid...
The head of Britain's ethics and integrity body has called for a comprehensive lobbying register that would make every lobbying contact public: which policies were targeted, and which officials were m...
The Senate Ethics Committee dismissed allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign-finance violations against Senator Ruben Gallego, finding no evidence of any violation. The complaint's origin — a H...
Investigators in Nigeria say a fake federal agency was quietly operating inside the seat of government under the Tinubu administration. The scandal draws in one of the country's most powerful official...
Bibles, sneakers, meme coins, golf resorts: Donald Trump has turned the presidency into a brand, and the brand into a fortune. A Guardian analysis warns that the ethical code restraining leaders is br...
Three federal judges in three states faced misconduct scrutiny — and received wildly different consequences for strikingly similar conduct. The disparity exposes a judicial discipline system so opaque...
In a matter of months, the Justice Department's internal guardians of ethics — the officials who reviewed conflicts, disclosures, and attorney misconduct — were removed one after another. What remains...
A congressional report alleges that the White House hijacked the nonpartisan celebration of America's 250th birthday, steering corporate money from the chartered America250 foundation into a shadow en...
Donald Trump's 927-page financial disclosure revealed more than two billion dollars in 2025 income, most of it flowing from cryptocurrency ventures launched on the eve of his return to power. It is, b...
An exclusive investigation into how attorney Joshua Reid Bronstein, representing a defendant in a Rockland County real property dispute, filed a sworn affirmation falsely claiming that opposing counse...
A suspended attorney license in Ohio is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to reinst...
Connecticut has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has ass...
Kim Keon Hee, wife of ousted and imprisoned South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for accepting luxury gifts in exchange for political favors — a verdict ...
A suspended attorney license in Pennsylvania is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path t...
Colorado has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assemb...
Frank Carone, former chief of staff to ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams, was arrested by the FBI on June 24, 2026, charged with accepting $120,000 in bribes to steer a multimillion-dollar emergency m...
A suspended attorney license in Illinois is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to re...
California has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has asse...
A jury found former Republican congressman David Rivera guilty of secretly lobbying the U.S. government on behalf of Venezuela's socialist Nicolás Maduro — the same government Rivera had publicly deno...
A suspended attorney license in New York is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to re...
Arkansas has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assemb...
Thirty-five former federal judges—including Republican appointees—have accused the Trump administration of engineering a collusive lawsuit against its own IRS to extract billions in personal benefits ...
A suspended attorney license in Florida is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to rei...