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#Musk lays groundwork for big #donor role in #midterm elections as time with #DOGE *ends*

As billionaire #ElonMusk scales back work for #Trump, he’s laying the groundwork for a major role as a #Republican political #megadonor in next year’s midterm elections, according to 4 people with direct knowledge of the matter.

#resist #DarkMoney #TheRealDeepState #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/musk-lays-groundwork-big-donor-role-midterm-elections-time-with-doge-ends-2025-04-28/

Customs & Border Protection records revealed that #ClarenceThomas & his wife, #GinniThomas, took a round trip between Hawaii & New Zealand in Nov 2010 on #HarlanCrow’s private jet. Sen #RonWyden, #Democrat of Oregon, writing to Crow’s lawyer, demanded that he supply more info about the #financial relationship between the 2 men.

#law #JudicialEthics #judiciary #corruption #ActivistCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/3c289da6f36f0ab9/1e8cb898-full.pdf

Justice #ClarenceThomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says

Sen #RonWyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor #HarlanCrow’s lawyer after records showed [more] undisclosed flights between Hawaii & New Zealand w/the #SCOTUS justice in 2010.

#law #JudicialEthics #judiciary #corruption #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform #FarRight #Republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/us/politics/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

#Darkmoney group running attack ads in #Ohio against #SherrodBrown with almost no public #disclosures
https://flip.it/9_xx3E

Justice Samuel #Alito Took #Luxury Fishing Vacation With #GOP #Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court

by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski
@ProPublica
#MegaDonor #SCOTUS #DarkMoney #Influence #Bribery #Law #Legal #Justice #Conflict #JudicialEthics
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court

In an opinion essay in The WSJ, Justice #Alito responded to questions about his #PrivateJet travel to a #luxury fishing trip w/a #GOP #MegaDonor #billionaire who frequently has cases before the #SupremeCourt hours before the ProPublica article was published.

The justice wrote he was not required to #disclose the trip or #recuse himself from his benefactor’s cases.

#SCOTUS #DarkMoney #Influence #Law #JudicialEthics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/politics/justice-alito-luxury-travel-fishing-trip.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Anybody wondering what I*m talking about re #KochNetwork #Cons - some great refs.
- Ask the environmentalists - DesmogBlog
- Tentoads4truth on Twitter - MegaThreads
- Indies
- dailykos RawStory truthout pressprogress
- Books:
- #DarkMoney -JaneMayerNewYorker
- #DemocracyInChains -nancymaclean5
- #ShadowNetwork - anelsona
- Orgs
#HeritageFoundation #CNP #ALEC #AmericaFirst #AmericansForProsperity #TurningPointUSA #FamilyValues #7Mountains #NAR ….
#ChristofFascism 😱😡🤬

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