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Ethics comes to SoCal Water District

The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) is a public cooperative of 26 cities and municipalities in Southern California that supplies water to over 19 million residents in the region. On Tuesday, two-thirds of MWD's Board of Directors voted to implement policies creating a more independent and robust ethics program.

New conflict-of-interest questions raised about wife of Justice Clarence Thomas

But the bigger problem is that the Supreme Court has no way to address them

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