…Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust, which was established in 2020 with a $1.6-billion donation from Tripp Lite CEO Barre Seid. Leo—who is also known as Trump’s “judge whisperer” and is credited…

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…Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust, which was established in 2020 with a $1.6-billion donation from Tripp Lite CEO Barre Seid. Leo—who is also known as Trump’s “judge whisperer” and is credited…
…2024, has made fighting “woke” companies—from Disney to Budweiser—central to his platform. Following the Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, unanimously passed by ALEC’s Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force in December…
…does include donation amounts, all donors’ names are redacted. So who funds ALEC? A review of hundreds of tax filings by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has uncovered…
…face discrimination and unwanted scrutiny by the federal government. They rely heavily on the 1958 Supreme Court case NAACP v. Alabama—which upheld the Black civil rights organization’s prerogative to refuse…
…York’s Zuccotti Park. Instead, Wolf-PAC has chosen to team up with the nation’s biggest corporate lobby group to pursue its goal—and is helping to advance ALEC’s right-wing plans for revising…
…sustainable investment approaches through model legislation like ALEC’s above-mentioned bill targeting public pensions, its Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, and its Eliminate Political Boycotts Act (which blacklists “woke” companies). In less…
…be the targeting of our nation’s fossil fuel companies.” Other candidates have announced or are considering a run in the GOP primary to determine who faces Manchin, but if Morrisey…
…that is similar to ALEC’s Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, Paul argued that it was important to “stand up to this wokeness.” Isaac also promoted that bill before the EEA Task…
…bill is the latest in a string of proposed legislation to punish companies that adopt responsible business practices that ALEC has promoted, including the Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, which focuses…
This is a series of annual special reports for CMD from guest contributor Alex Carlin about his observations at the United Nations climate conference. — CMD Editors #6: Real Solutions…