Leonard Leo was instrumental in packing the US Supreme Court with the conservative supermajority. But he has also been busily at work packing state supreme courts as well.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Though voter fraud has not been a problem, getting in the way of people voting isn’t a new phenomenon in Alabama. Neither is using election security to justify it.
The huge question here is why billionaires like Reed Hastings and John Arnold, as well as the DeVos family are throwing money at a school board election campaign.
In their blind loyalty to their mega-donors, Republicans' fixation on giant tax cuts for billionaires has created a revenue problem.
A behind-the-scenes pressure campaign to shore up support for Jim Jordan as Speaker, which included anonymous threats to at least one member of Congress, appears to have backfired.
The right wing faces crises with incompetence or cynical exploitation: Bush and Hurricane Katrina; Netanyahu and Gaza; Trump and Covid, or tossing paper towels at hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.
As we come to another contentious election cycle, understanding dark money will become increasingly important. Here are some of the basics.
Russia is close to having the upper hand Ukraine because of Putin’s ability to get American Republican politicians to mouth his talking points and propaganda.
Jim Jordan does not even qualify for Congress, much less Speaker. He was all in on the subversive plot to seize an unearned second term for the defeated president by invalidating millions of legitimate American votes.
DeSantis is using the horror of the Israel-Hamas war as a campaign stunt, to protect Florida from non-existence violence and calling himself the “most pro-Israel governor” in the country.
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
Trump and the rest of the anti-democracy right are creating an atmosphere of harassment and danger with the hope that judicial norms will dissolve and strong-arm threats will prevail.
If the six Republican SCOTUS justices rule the way the oligarchs who support their extravagant lifestyles want, America could be a very, very different place in just a few years.
Sunlight and accountability are still the best disinfectants and America needs to close this ugly chapter in our history with a sense of both finality and justice.
Kevin McCarthy is out of his depth and treading water, badly, while suffering under the delusion that he is somehow "the adult in the room."
Justice Thomas' billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow has a vested interest in weakening rent control laws across the country to buttress his real estate empire's profits.
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