…role that the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo has played in selecting Trump’s 234 federal court nominees—including three Justices given lifetime seats on the Supreme Court. Leo sits at the hub…
Right-Wing Groups Coordinate Attacks on Biden Nominees
…led by JCN and other groups in the network of former Federalist Society executive Leonard Leo. Additional organizations involved in the campaign are the free-market think tank the Competitive Enterprise…
Open Government Groups Call on Biden to Make Transparency a Top Priority
The Center for Media and Democracy joined a coalition of 43 civil society and government reform groups in a letter delivered to the White House today calling on President Biden…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Gave $119,000 to Congress Members Who Voted to Overturn the Presidential Election
…questioned Covid-19’s mortality rate and denounced stay-at-home health orders as “fascist.” Arn Pearson and Alex Kotch contributed to this report. Image adapted from SpaceX/Flickr (license) and The Royal Society/Wikipedia (license)…
Parler Is Now in the Hands of a Right-Wing Activist Seeking a Radical Rewrite of the Constitution
…Fund between 2010 and 2018. It also got $950,000 from the Judicial Education Project, a legal nonprofit closely tied to the conservative Federalist Society and its co-chairman, Leonard Leo, in…
New Right-Wing Litigation Center Working to Upend COVID-19 Public Health Restrictions, Fight Unions
…the Federalist Society‘s Pro Bono Resource Center. The Federalist Society is the nation’s most influential right-wing legal organization with deep ties to the conservative wing of the U.S. Supreme Court….
Charles Koch’s “Uniter” Rebrand Strains Credulity After Funding Congressional Coup Supporters
…strains credulity. The man spent his entire adult life, while helming one of the largest and dirtiest private companies in the nation, working to fundamentally alter society and move it…
RAGA Raised $1.6 Million as Republican AGs Challenged Election Results
…by Federalist Society board co-chair and Trump “judge whisperer” Leonard Leo, led all contributors during the filing period with $252,000, bringing Concord Fund’s total donation to RAGA in 2020 to…
The Real Money Behind the Politicians Who Voted to Overturn the ElectionInsurrection Exposed
…and Federalist Society board member C. Boyden Gray ($1.8 million). CNBC reports that with fewer PAC donations, Republicans are worried about 2022 fundraising and plan to appeal to their biggest…
Republican AGs Forever Tied to Violent Pro-Trump Insurrection
…funds RAGA? RAGA’s biggest funder from 2019 to 2020 was The Concord Fund, a dark money group formerly known as the Judicial Crisis Network, led by former Federalist Society executive…