The consulting firm led by Leonard Leo, the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, has worked for billionaire Charles Koch’s political advocacy network and a dark-money group that is currently arguing a Supreme Court case designed to preempt a wealth tax, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone. The …
Read More »Senate Dems Finally Subpoena Supreme Court Puppet Master
Conservative activistLeonard Leowas hit with a subpoena from Senate Democrats on Thursday as part of a probe into Supreme Court ethics and whether individuals or groups used luxury gifts to access justices. The subpoena from the Senate Judiciary Committee arrives months after it was authorized, CNN reported. “Mr. Leo has …
Read More »Supreme Court Puppetmaster Explains How Billionaires Can Push America Right
Conservative activist and Supreme Court puppetmaster Leonard Leo recently outlined his pitch for billionaires on how they can help move the United States government and society to the right. “It’s really important that we flood the zone with cases that challenge misuse of the Constitution by the administrative state and …
Read More »The Latest MAGA War on Democracy
This article is being published in partnership with the watchdog group Documented. An organized and well-funded network of right-wing groups is spending countless millions attacking a bipartisan election reform that could threaten the MAGA political project. Ranked-choice voting — which allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, rather …
Read More »GOP Puppetmaster Expands His Dark-Money Operation
Conservative activist and judicial puppetmaster Leonard Leo is building out his dark-money network. A counsel at one of Leo’s primary nonprofits recently registered two new dark-money organizations with subsidiaries whose names just so happen to be very similar to groups through which Leo has run some of his most effective …
Read More »Ginni Thomas and Conservative Activists Worked Together to Exploit Citizens United Ruling: Report
As the Supreme Court prepared to decide the Citizens United case that designated money as political speech, Ginni Thomas — wife of Justice Clarence Thomas — along with conservative activists quickly and quietly filed to create exactly the type of non-profit group that would benefit from the decision, Politico reports. …
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