#leonardleo — Public Fediverse posts

Dharna Noor: Far-right fossil fuel company allies pressure US supreme court to shield firms in unprecedented campaign: Groups linked to billionaire Leonard Leo, who seems to have ties to Chevron, are pressing the court to intervene in lawsuits that could cost billions

"Far-right fossil fuel allies have launched a stunning and unprecedented campaign pressuring the supreme court to shield fossil fuel companies from litigation that could cost them billions of dollars.

Some of the groups behind the campaign have ties to Leonard Leo, the architect of the rightwing takeover of the supreme court who helped select Trump’s supreme court nominees. Leo also appears to have ties to Chevron, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit."

#ClimateChange #chevron #LeonardLeo #FossilFuelLobby #fossilfuels #supremecourt #billionaires #corruption
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/09/fossil-fuel-allies-pressuring-supreme-court

She (#GinniThomas) created a for-profit consulting biz using a similar name — #LibertyConsulting — that enabled her to perform consulting work for #conservative activist grps.

The #JudicialEducationProject supplied some of her biz: Docs indicate #LeonardLeo ordered at least 1 recipient of his groups’ funds, #KellyanneConway, to pay #GinniThomas for unspecified work, acc/to a #WaPo story….

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

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.

#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

#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/