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  1. Chuck Darwin @[email protected] ·

    What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement

    Ginni Thomas really wanted to build an organization and be a movement leader,” said a person familiar with her thinking in 2009.
    “#LeonardLeo was going to be the conduit of that.”

    She also had a rich backer: #HarlanCrow, the manufacturing billionaire who had helped Thomas and her husband in many ways, from funding luxury vacations to picking up tuition payments for their great-nephew.

    At the time, the #CitizensUnited ruling was widely expected, as the court had already signaled its intentions.

    When it came, it upended nearly 100 years of campaign spending restrictions.

    The conservative legal movement seized the moment with greater success than any other group, and the consequences have shaped American jurisprudence and politics in dramatic ways.

    politico.com/news/2023/09/10/g

    #ginnithomas #darkmoney #abortionban #samuelalito #clarencethomas #FedSoc #45committee #60plus

    #citizensunited #leonardleo #harlancrow #ginnithomas #darkmoney #abortionban
  2. Chuck Darwin @[email protected] ·

    What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement

    Ginni Thomas really wanted to build an organization and be a movement leader,” said a person familiar with her thinking in 2009.
    “#LeonardLeo was going to be the conduit of that.”

    She also had a rich backer: #HarlanCrow, the manufacturing billionaire who had helped Thomas and her husband in many ways, from funding luxury vacations to picking up tuition payments for their great-nephew.

    At the time, the #CitizensUnited ruling was widely expected, as the court had already signaled its intentions.

    When it came, it upended nearly 100 years of campaign spending restrictions.

    The conservative legal movement seized the moment with greater success than any other group, and the consequences have shaped American jurisprudence and politics in dramatic ways.

    politico.com/news/2023/09/10/g

    #ginnithomas #darkmoney #abortionban #samuelalito #clarencethomas #FedSoc #45committee #60plus

    #citizensunited #leonardleo #harlancrow #ginnithomas #darkmoney #abortionban
  3. Chuck Darwin @[email protected] ·

    What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement

    Ginni Thomas really wanted to build an organization and be a movement leader,” said a person familiar with her thinking in 2009.
    “#LeonardLeo was going to be the conduit of that.”

    She also had a rich backer: #HarlanCrow, the manufacturing billionaire who had helped Thomas and her husband in many ways, from funding luxury vacations to picking up tuition payments for their great-nephew.

    At the time, the #CitizensUnited ruling was widely expected, as the court had already signaled its intentions.

    When it came, it upended nearly 100 years of campaign spending restrictions.

    The conservative legal movement seized the moment with greater success than any other group, and the consequences have shaped American jurisprudence and politics in dramatic ways.

    politico.com/news/2023/09/10/g

    #ginnithomas #darkmoney #abortionban #samuelalito #clarencethomas #FedSoc #45committee #60plus

    #citizensunited #leonardleo #harlancrow #ginnithomas #darkmoney #abortionban
  4. Chuck Darwin @[email protected] ·

    What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement

    Ginni Thomas really wanted to build an organization and be a movement leader,” said a person familiar with her thinking in 2009.
    “#LeonardLeo was going to be the conduit of that.”

    She also had a rich backer: #HarlanCrow, the manufacturing billionaire who had helped Thomas and her husband in many ways, from funding luxury vacations to picking up tuition payments for their great-nephew.

    At the time, the #CitizensUnited ruling was widely expected, as the court had already signaled its intentions.

    When it came, it upended nearly 100 years of campaign spending restrictions.

    The conservative legal movement seized the moment with greater success than any other group, and the consequences have shaped American jurisprudence and politics in dramatic ways.

    politico.com/news/2023/09/10/g

    #ginnithomas #darkmoney #abortionban #samuelalito #clarencethomas #FedSoc #45committee #60plus

    #60plus #45committee #fedsoc #clarencethomas #samuelalito #abortionban