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Senator Whitehouse on
SCOTUS-Maker, “Creepy Leonard Leo” 07/11/2024 |
In yesterday’s DM, I made reference to Leonard Leo, which one must always do if one is talking about the unsupreme court and its bevy of unjustices. His presence has been all-pervasive for years in the fashioning of the court and ensuring that the christofascist values he and Opus Dei embody are well represented there. |
Leo has been vice president and also co-chair of the Federalist Society, and Trump promised in 2016 that all his nominees for SCOTUS would be “picked by the Federalist Society." Yet those in the know tell us that the list of nominees ultimately “was devised by Leo alone.”* |
“Captured court”: Chris Hayes reports on Leonard Leo’s two-fold plan to form the current Supreme Court. MSNBC. |
Leo has been in the news lately, when Senator Sheldon Whitehouse invoked him in his powerful critique of dark money in American politics. He writes: It’s a trifecta: dark money is behind climate denial, Court capture and corruption of Congress—one crew, one plan, one cancer in the body politic.** All this came about with the passing of the Citizens United decision by John Roberts’ Supreme Court.
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“The Scheme.” In an ongoing series, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee Chair, exposes donor machinations to achieve right-wing goals through SCOTUS that would not pass the legislative or executive branches. | Dark money has provided a “filthy bestiary of influence” since that time. Dark money is the “massive anonymous political spending by special interests” who hide
their identifies from the public. Voters become less important in deciding political outcomes and “the big secret spenders” become more important. |
Polling is off the charts to restrict this kind of dark money—republicans as well as independents and democrats are against it. Whitehouse points out that before Citizens United, climate change was a bipartisan issue (in 2008 McCain included it in his platform), but fossil-fuel dark money killed
that bipartisanship. The “amenable” justices on the Supreme Court –including for sure chief justice John Roberts–were captured by a dark-money operation funded by “creepy polluter billionaires and managed by their creepy minion Leonard Leo.” |
Thanks to the Heritage Foundation, the Supreme Court members are instructed on what to do to keep dark money flowing. Recently a DM reader asked me to share more about Leonard Leo, this important billionaire who appears in photos with Clarence |
Chris Hayes reports on “Leonard Leo, The Most Powerful Person In America You’ve Never Heard Of.” 2022. MSNBC. |
Thomas and his Texan sugar daddy on a number of occasions, and who nominated all six far-right supreme court unjustices. So we will be sharing some previous DMs that feature Leo and his theocratic philosophy and Opus Dei view of the world in tomorrow’s DM. |
* Heidi Przybyla, “Leonard Leo used Federalist Society contact to obtain $1.6B donation.” Politico.com, 5/2/2023.
** Meteor Blades, “Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse tells it like it is: ‘one crew, one plan, one cancer in the body politic.'” Daily Kos, 7/2/2024.
See Matthew Fox, “Opus Dei,” in Fox, The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved, pp. 106-124.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and
Society.
Banner Image: “Dark Money.” Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash
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The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved
The Pope’s War offers a provocative look at three decades of corruption in the
Catholic Church, focusing on Josef Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. The final section in the book focuses on birthing a truly catholic Christianity.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil
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In the Beginning There Was Joy: A Cosmic Celebration for Kids of All Ages
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