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https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110453620908278083
Travel Rewards: What the Crow Family May Have Bought by Hosting Those Luxury Trips for Justice Thomas
https://persagen.com/docs/sackett_vinc_environmental_protection_agency_2023.html
Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency 2023
Billionaire Harlan Crow's firm advocated for rolling back the very wetland protections the Supreme Court just gutted.
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As HuffPost reported in 2023-04 (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-business-interests_n_64494a12e4b0d840388c2935), a trade group chaired by Ken Valach - currently the CEO of the development platform of Crow Holdings - was directly involved in the Sackett case (Sackett v. EPA II, 2023), pouring cold water over Clarence Thomas' claim that Harlan Crow's gifts weren't a conflict of interest because the billionaire had no business before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) - a trade group that counts three of Harlan Crow's companies as dues-paying members - filed an amicus brief in the case, calling for the rollback of regulations they viewed as stifling housing construction.
The NMHC has been a long-standing opponent of more expansive interpretations of the definition of "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) covered by the Clean Water Act, ...
