Leo Leonardo - Konservativ aktivisme med mørke penger i USA

Mørke penger brukes av konservative krefter i USA for å påvirke og utnevne konservative aktører i ledende posisjoner, så som dommmere og statsadvokater.

Sentralt angis å være Lenonard Leo  og The Federalsit Society.

Nedenfor er en rekke ferske avisartikler.
Det er tydelig at åpenhet om pengemidler er en mangelvare.

Dette er et klart faresignal for et sunt demokrati når mørke penger kjøper innflytelse .

 

The Guardian  4. september 2022:
"Leonard Leo: the secretive rightwinger using billions to reshape America"
"Marble Freedom Trust, advocacy group headed by Leo, has received vast $1.6bn donation to push conservative causes"

The Guardian 6. april 2023:
Rightwing legal activist accused of misusing $73m from non-profit groups
"A watchdog complaint filed with the IRS presents an accounting of the money paid to Leonard Leo’s for-profit businesses"

 Politico 2. mai 2023:
"Leonard Leo used Federalist Society contact to obtain $1.6B donation"
"The society’s close ties to Leo’s network raise questions about its nonpartisan, non-political status."

 Washington Post 20. juni 2023:
"Gov. Ron DeSantis used secretive panel to flip state Supreme Court"
"Leonard Leo, the key architect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority, led the advisers who helped DeSantis reshape the state court"

The Guardian  23. juni 2023:
"US dark-money fund spends millions to back Republican attorneys general"
"Concord Fund, linked to Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, a lavish supporter of Republican Attorneys General Association"

Skudeneshavn   23. juni 2023

Jan Marton Jensen

 

Kilde:
23. juni 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/concord-fund-republican-attorneys-general

20. juni 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/20/gov-ron-desantis-used-secretive-panel-flip-state-supreme-court/

2. mai 2023
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/02/leonard-leo-federalist-society-00094761

6. april 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/06/leonard-leo-watchdog-complaint-investigation 

4. september 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/04/leonard-leo-federalist-society-conservative-abortion

The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court

 

The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court Hardcover – October 18, 2022

by Sheldon Whitehouse (Author), Jennifer Mueller (Author)

 A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee recounts how anonymous donors seized control of the U.S. Judiciary, including the Supreme Court

Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it influenced the Trump administration’s appointment of over 230 “business-friendly” judges, including the last three justices of the United States Supreme Court.

Whitehouse traces the motive to control the court system back to Lewis Powell’s notorious memo, which gave a road map for corporate influence to target the judiciary, and chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups and helped by the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. The scheme utilized the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, spent secret millions to support the nominees, orchestrated an “amicus brief” signaling apparatus, and propped up front-group litigants to “fast-lane” strategic test cases to the friendly justices.

Whitehouse finds the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations running operations that he likens to “covert ops,” ultimately enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance the anti- government agenda of a small number of corporate oligarchs.

The world got a glimpse of this story when the Senator’s presentation at the Amy Coney Barrett hearing went viral. Now, full of unique insights and inside stories, The Scheme pulls back the curtain on a powerful and hidden apparatus that has spent years trying to corrupt our politics, control our courts, and degrade our democracy.

Skudeneshavn   19. september 2022

Jan Marton Jensen

 

Kilde:

18. oktober 2022
https://www.amazon.com/Scheme-Right-Money-Capture-Supreme/dp/1620977389?&linkCode=sl1&tag=thewaspos09-20&linkId=06457a7171278dbe07e8af5969c11d58&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl 

22.august 2022
https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid

22. februar 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/feb/22/the-scheme-senators-highlight-rightwing-influence-supreme-court