Excellent reporting by @HeidiReports it continues & gets even crazier w/millions going to #GinniThomas; characters such as #JohnEastman, #CletaMitchell & more submit amicus briefs & attempt to influence #SCOTUS; #CarrieSeverino a #ClarenceThomas clerk & #LeonardLeo #JEP assoc briefs SCOTUS on the anti-#abortion anti-#Obamacare #HobbyLobby case; the 2016 #Trump election; #FederalistSociety groomed judges #AmyConeyBarrett, #BrettKavanaugh & #NeilGorsuch get appointed.
Recommended read.

Many people trace the start of the #conservative #legal movement to 1982, the year of the founding of the #FederalistSociety, which provided a forum for #law students & profs w/conservative ideas to incubate their theories.

But the movement that has had such a profound impact on the courts today — one that involves #money & #politics, more than legal theories or principles — gained steam in the wake of the #CitizensUnited decision.

#DarkMoney #Influence #Corruption #Minoritarianism

The activists included #FederalistSociety leader #LeonardLeo &his ideological soulmate, a hard-edged activist named #GinniThomas, the wife of #SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas.
“Ginni really wanted to build an organization & be a movement leader. Leonard [Leo] was going to be the conduit of that” said a person familiar….
She also had… #HarlanCrow, the… #billionaire who helped Thomas & her husband in many ways, from #funding #luxury #vacations to picking up #tuition payments for their great-nephew.

Meyerson might be wrong, of course. No one ever lost money betting on the self-destructive hubris of #FederalistSociety judges. But even if he's wrong, his point is important. If the Supremes frustrate the democratic will of the American people, we have to smash the Supremes. Term limits, court-packing, whatever it takes:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/20/judicial-equilibria/#pack-the-court

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Tonight, after #RightWinger #CharlieKirk declared that it was the " #BidenRegime " that sentenced #EnriqueTarrio to 22 years in prison, #MSNBC's #MehdiHasan quipped:

«“Biden Regime” lol? The *judge* who sentenced Tarrio is #TimothyJKelly, a #Trump appointee, former counsel to #ChuckGrassley, and member of the #FederalistSociety. »

#LeonardLeo — the Federalist Society leader who “helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court”— revealed his next battle in video for the #teneonetwork : “‘roll back’ liberal influence in Wall Street & Silicon Valley, among authors & academics, with pro athletes & Hollywood producers. A #federalistsociety for everything.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents

PSA: #LittleSis is a #crowdsourced #database of entities - people and groups - and their financial, political, familial, social connections, e.g. #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety https://littlesis.org/search?q=Leonard+Leo+federalist

#FederalistSociety #Resurrection Two lawyers caught up in the highest levels in the Fulton County indictment, both of whom are also unindicted co-conspirators in the January 6 indictment, are not third-rate weirdos. Instead, they are conservatives with lengthy careers and strong ties to the Federalist Society, Leonard Leo’s breeding ground for hard-right lawyers. https://www.publicnotice.co/p/jeffrey-clark-eastman-charges-federalist-society?r=ziwt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

As Lisa Needham points out, the mugshots of Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman are the Federalist Society's mugshots, documenting for all time the role that organization is playing in the attempt to overthrow democracy — a task it has long been engaged in and for which it exists.

#JeffreyClark #JohnEastman #FederalistSociety #democracy #insurrection #mugshot

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/jeffrey-clark-eastman-charges-federalist-society

#DC #AG is probing #LeonardLeo’s network. #FederalistSociety co-chair & ex-Trump #judicial adviser has utilized nonprofit groups to collect more than $1 billion for #conservative causes. Best known as #Trump’s WH“court whisperer,” Leo played behind-the-scenes role in nominations of all 3 of former prez #SCOTUS justices, promoted them through his multi $B network of nonprofits. Trump chose his 3 #SCOTUS picks, #Gorsuch, #Kavanaugh #ConeyBarrett from list drawn up by Leo. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/d-c-attorney-general-is-probing-leonard-leos-network-00112331

#CPAC will need to hold its next #convention in a #prison yard. The #FederalistSociety may soon have to create a category of membership for the #disbarred and criminally convicted.
#ConservativeIsaRICOenterprise

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-stain-not-easily-removed/

"Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is investigating judicial activist Leonard Leo and his network of nonprofit groups, according to a person with direct knowledge of the probe. …

Best known as Donald Trump’s White House 'court whisperer,' Leo played a behind-the-scenes role in the nominations of all three of the former president’s Supreme Court justices…."

~ Heidi Przybyla

#LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #SupremeCourt #OpusDei

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/d-c-attorney-general-is-probing-leonard-leos-network-00112331

#federalistsociety #investigation #DC #AttorneyGeneral #Schwalb #NonProfits #LeonardLeo

WELCOMED BUT WAY OVERDUE.

#LeonardLeo personally picked the last 3 #SupremeCourt justices, as well as countless federal #judges. Those picks are supposed to be made by the #President, but Trump handed over the authority to Mr. Leo marking the first time in American #history that Supreme Court justices were chosen by a private citizen and partisan political activist. Leo's #FederalistSociety represents an unprecedented #threat to the #nation, and a federal #investigation is truly fantastic news.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/d-c-attorney-general-is-probing-leonard-leos-network-00112331

@pmonks @marynelson8 Two of the #FederalistSociety have echoed the same sentiment. The #FederalistSociety runs the #SCOTUS. Highly doubtful they would go against it to protect #DefendantTrump

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xYR-3qVzz9g&feature=share #politics #whitenationalistterrorism #whitenationalism #whitesupremacy #whitesupremacists #blm #rightwingextremism #Christofascism #refusefascism #fascism #slavery #federalistsociety #maga #trump #indictment #indictments #gop #goplies

" #Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify #Trump for Role on Jan. 6 - Two law professors active in the #Federalist Society wrote that the original meaning of the 14th Amendment makes Donald Trump ineligible to hold government office.

Two prominent conservative law professors have concluded that Donald J. Trump is ineligible to be president under a provision of the Constitution that bars people who have engaged in an insurrection from holding government office. The professors are active members of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, and proponents of originalism, the method of interpretation that seeks to determine the Constitution’s original meaning. The professors — William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas — studied the question for more than a year and detailed their findings in a long article to be published next year in The University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

#NYT #NewYorkTimes article, link without paywall - https://archive.ph/zk9SL

#US #USPolitics #USElections #2024Election #FederalistSociety #Conservatives #Republicans

@RecursiveElegance @carolynporco The difference now is that it’s #TheFederalistSociety that bringing it up. The same #FederalistSociety that appointed 6/9 #SCOTUS justices.

Remember all the way back earlier this week when two #FederalistSociety members decided #Trump was ineligible to run for President because of the #14thAmendment ?

Well #Vox is here to tell us it wouldn't work because it would make Trump supporters mad. 😶

https://www.vox.com/23828477/trump-2024-14th-amendment-banned?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fnews

Uh-oh. Two conservative Professors of Law, who are both members of the #FederalistSociety , conclude that #DonaldTrump is not even eligible to run for ANY elected office until a supermajority of Congress grants him immunity for his actions during the #January6th #FailedCoupAttempt. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 👉 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-disqualified-office-law-professors_n_64d5fa85e4b0b8690b83d185