#leonard-leo — Public Fediverse posts

"The Concord Fund — Leo’s confirmation-campaign vehicle — has given RAGA $18.8 million since 2014, including $2 million in the first half of 2024, making it RAGA’s largest single donor. Koch Industries, the American Petroleum Institute, and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers have written six-figure checks. The circuit closes at every connection point."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"CRC Advisors, the firm Leo controls, took in $24.9 million from Leo’s 85 Fund in 2023, with $80 million flowing from the network to CRC since Leo took over the firm in 2020.

The fossil fuel industry’s entry into this network runs through the Republican Attorneys General Association, which has received $5.8 million from oil-and-gas companies and their lobbying groups since 2020 alone."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #BigOil
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"The Trust gave $153 million to Leo’s Rule of Law Trust in 2021. The Rule of Law Trust gave $36.3 million in grants to allied organizations in 2020 alone, with the Concord Fund — formerly the Judicial Crisis Network, the organization that ran the campaigns to confirm Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett — as the largest single beneficiary."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has tracked the pipeline across multiple investigations. Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust, established in 2020, controls a $1.6 billion dark-money fund."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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@indivisibleteam

The #SCOTUS decision on the #VotingRightsAct is exactly what #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety paid for in #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts

@georgetakei

The #SCOTUS decision on the #VotingRightsAct is exactly what #LeonardLeo and the #FederalistSociety paid for in #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trump-mcconnell-roberts-thats-not?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#uspol #uspolitics #fascism #corrupt #treason #corruption #scotus #heritagefoundation #project2025 #trump #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #AlexAronson @kimlanelaw Scheppele #mcconnell #mitchmcconnell #federalistsociety #leonardleo #johnroberts #scotus #shadowdocket #judicialbranch #SenateJudiciaryCommittee #usattorney #darinsmith #DanBishop #PhillipWilliamsJr #wyoming #northcarolina #alabama #alvinbragg #specialcouncil #jacksmith #alinahabba #newjersey

As Lauren Egan notes, with upcoming empty seats on the Supreme Court anticipated, "the possibility of a Supreme Court confirmation fight has been the subject of rampant chatter among the Washington political class."

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-arent-buying-reports-of-justice-samuel-alito-staying-put-supreme-court-scotus-retirements-clarence-thomas

"Remember when Amy Coney Barrett said of her colleagues 'we’re not a bunch of partisan hacks?' Well, they are a bunch of partisan hacks. And the number one partisan hack is John Roberts."

~ Norman Ornstein

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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https://xcancel.com/NormOrnstein/status/2045843172828295264#m

(continued from /4)

"whatever was necessary to advance a conservative, pro-business, pro-religious cultural agenda seemingly dictated by The Federalist Society, the Koch Brothers network of billionaires, and arch-conservative Catholic Leonard Leo."

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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"In conjunction with other conservative justices (notably Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Kennedy), Roberts began reshaping long-standing jurisprudence by expanding and contracting the 'strike zone' at will—" (continued in /5)

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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"The memos leaked to the NYTimes confirm what many court observers have long believed: that Roberts is manipulating the rules of the Court to advance his personal and political beliefs, which are centered around a conservative, pro-business, white Christian worldview."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/john-roberts-isnt-calling-balls-and

"The scoop highlights the conservative justices’ brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now — and the ways in which they are now ignoring the concerns that allegedly animated their action a decade ago."

The NY Times report by Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak is linked below.

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html

"On Saturday, The New York Times published a story about the U.S. Supreme Court’s actions a decade ago blocking the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan on what has become known as the shadow docket."

~ Chris Geidner

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-2016-memos-roberts-supreme-court-mess

Leonard Leo has spent decades building a well-funded network influencing the U.S. judiciary. As Senator Sheldon Whitehouse states @2:07, "a billionaire dumped on Leonard Leo a $1.6 billion slush fund." He outlines how this ecosystem operates--and why it matters for judicial independence and public trust.

Worth understanding how these relationships shape the courts:
https://youtu.be/QS04lmJqeck?si=8m8M5fZKt6OwP2pe

#LeonardLeo #SheldonWhitehouse #SCOTUS #RuleOfLaw #DarkMoney #USPolitics

Isn't it weird that it's easier to find a birthday for Leonardo Leo, an 18th century artist, than it is for #LeonardLeo of the #FederalistSociety infamy?
:thinkSpin:

#OpusDei #TTJ

@madalex @Lydie

IMO, the rad trad and other fash caths (Like Leonard Leo & the Heritage Foundation) want a schism & an American catholic church that they can control.

See the admin threatening an "Avignon Papacy" when pressuring the Vatican rep at the Pentagon in January.

#Catholic #RadTrad #LeonardLeo

"The money began to arrive in earnest in 2021, thanks to the largesse of groups connected with two of the country’s most powerful right-wing donors: Leonard Leo and Thomas D. Klingenstein. Leo, a longtime vacationer in Maine, moved to the state in 2020, and his fingerprints could soon be found on various political campaigns and causes."

#Maine #Minnesota #Trump #Somalis #ICE #EthnicCleansing #LeonardLeo
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"It’s no accident that the events playing out in Maine resemble the playbook used to justify the federal crackdown in Minnesota, according to Graham Platner, a U.S. Senate candidate running against Mills for the Democratic nomination.

'This is a nationwide project. This is directly connected to the story in Minnesota to demonize Somali communities, which brought about ICE raids there,' Platner told The Intercept."

#Maine #Minnesota #Trump #Somalis #ICE #EthnicCleansing #LeonardLeo
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"That month, the Maine Wire published at least 31 articles that included the word “Somali” and kept it up with at least 26 in January, at least 14 in February, and at least nine in March. Robinson published still more stories about the issue on his Substack, dubbed The Robinson Report."

#Maine #Minnesota #Trump #Somalis #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #LeonardLeo
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"Beginning in December, as right-wing audiences frothed over the viral Nick Shirley video in Minnesota, The Maine Wire leapt into action. Its journalists dusted off earlier reporting to suggest the existence of a sprawling conspiracy of Medicaid fraud, protected by a sordid alliance between Democratic political elites and allegedly corrupt Somali-run nonprofits and health care providers."

#Maine #Minnesota #Trump #Somalis #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #LeonardLeo
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"But as the U.S. right took a hard nativist turn — and amid an infusion of cash from some of the most powerful right-wing money men in the country — the site developed a fixation on Maine’s Somali community, a highly visible immigrant population in a state that’s over 90 percent white."

#Maine #Minnesota #Trump #Somalis #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #LeonardLeo
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"As the deadly federal immigration crackdown fueled by a racist obsession with Somali people kicked into high gear in Minnesota, a right-wing local news site in Maine had a clear message: Bring the chaos here.

The Maine Wire launched in 2011, and for the next decade most of its output was standard libertarian fare."

~ Noah Hurowitz

#Maine #Minnesota #Trump #Somalis #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #LeonardLeo
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https://theintercept.com/2026/04/08/maine-wire-conservative-news-leonard-leo-somalis/

"Together, they threaten to remove long-standing tools for the public to hold corporations accountable.

A ProPublica investigation has found that most of these bills are part of a coordinated effort, orchestrated by a constellation of groups that share staff or have funding ties to the prominent conservative activist Leonard Leo, who is credited with placing conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court."

#LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #SupremeCourt #oil #gas
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"Across the country, Republican-led state legislatures are passing a slate of laws that effectively shield oil and gas companies from legal claims that they are responsible for the destruction and mounting toll caused by climate change. Fifteen laws have either been passed or are currently being debated in 11 states.".

~ Abraham Lustgarten

#LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #SupremeCourt #oil #gas
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https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-alec-leonard-leo-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-oil-gas-immunity

"Remember Leonard Leo, the brains behind the carefully constructed conservative majority on the Supreme Court? According to the good people at ProPublica, he’s been a busy little lavishly financed bee hard at work wrecking other parts of the country on behalf of the oil and gas industry."

~ Charles Pierce

#LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #SupremeCourt #oil #gas
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70954941/leonard-leo-oil-gas-industry-funding-state-laws/

"What’s ironic is that you have the leader of the Catholic church speaking out against war and against the way that immigrants are being treated. That shows this co-option of the Christian identity by Opus Dei to be a complete fallacy; it’s all for political expediency. It’s about these people’s own deeply authoritarian and conservative views about how the world should be run."

#OpusDei #PopeLeo #Vatican #MAGA #SupremeCourt #LeonardLeo #KevinRoberts
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