A key #LeonardLeo aide, Sarah Field, would come aboard to help #GinniThomas manage the group, which they called #LibertyCentral.

After Liberty Central went public, it provoked an outcry over a #SCOTUS justice’s wife promoting causes like overturning #Obamacare that were before her husband’s court. Leo & Thomas changed gears. His network reactivated a dormant group, the #JudicialEducationProject, which would go on to become a major supplier of #AmicusBriefs before the nation’s highest court.

A film, websites, and even a Twitter fan account praising Clarence Thomas were all part of a coordinated public relations campaign backed by nonprofit groups tied to a Federalist Society chairman
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Besides providing the Supreme Court justice with valuable, and largely unreported, gifts, well heeled conservative activists have been running a long-standing PR campaign on his behalf.

#ClarenceThomas #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #SCOTUS #JudicialEducationProject

https://www.businessinsider.com/leonard-leo-backed-pr-campaign-praising-clarence-thomas-wapo-2023-7

#LeonardLeo, a key figure in a network of nonprofits that has worked to support the nominations of conservative judges, told Conway he wanted her to “give” #GinniThomas “another $25K”….He emphasized that the paperwork should have “No mention of Ginni, of course.”
Conway’s firm, the Polling Co, sent the #JudicialEducationProject a $25k bill that day. Per Leo…,it listed the purpose as “Supplement for Constitution Polling & Opinion Consulting”
#FederalistSociety #SCOTUS #JudicialActivism #DarkMoney

…#LeonardLeo arranged for the wife of #SupremeCourt Justice #ClarenceThomas to be paid tens of thousands…for consulting work…, SPECIFYING that her name be left off billing paperwork….

In Jan 2012, Leo instructed… Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group he advises & use that money to pay #GinniThomas…. The same yr, the nonprofit, the #JudicialEducationProject, filed a brief to #SCOTUS in a landmark #VotingRights case.

#FederalistSociety #SCOTUSstench #Corruption #JudicialActivism #DarkMoney

Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’

#Law #LawFedi #SCOTUS #JudicialEthics #Ethics #NonProfit #VotingRightsAct #VotingRights #impartiality #disclosure #egregious #NonProfitLaw #JudicialEducationProject #FollowTheMoney

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’

#Law #LawFedi #SCOTUS #JudicialEthics #Ethics #NonProfit #VotingRightsAct #VotingRights #impartiality #disclosure #egregious #NonProfitLaw #JudicialEducationProject #FollowTheMoney

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

#Conservative #judicial activist #LeonardLeo arranged $25k payment to #GinniThomas for consulting work specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork per documents reviewed by WaPo. In January 2012, Leo instructed GOP pollster# KellyanneConway to bill a nonprofit group he advises and use that money to pay Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the documents show. The same year, the nonprofit #JudicialEducationProject filed a brief to #SCOTUS in a landmark #VotingRights case. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/