The revelation was included in a report by Democratic staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee who had conducted a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.
The revelation was included in a report by Democratic staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee who had conducted a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.
They should have to wear body cams so we can see their dinner conversations with lobbyists. All body cam data is livestreamed and saved for citizens to view. The only time they get to disable it is to go to the bathroom and when they go home to their family at night.
They shouldn’t be allowed personal devices for communications, instead being forced to use government-provided devices that also track and post everything they do on their device to the public internet for the voters to see.
If we’re in a democracy and we’ve voted to entrust you with the safeguarding of our democracy, you deserve more public scrutiny, not less.
If they wanted a world where we didn’t feel like we had to do this to our representatives, maybe they shouldn’t have thrown all those years of norms and decorum and gentlemans handshakes out the fucking window three decades ago. Maybe if they were operating in good faith we wouldn’t feel the need to demand every sliver of their lives to prove they’re actually working for the people.