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New @washingtonpost exposé documents how $250 million in dark money has allowed the far right to engage in an ongoing, multiyear effort to accomplish through the courts what they failed to do legislatively. By @robertoharrow and @ShawnBoburg

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It explains how the @FedSoc's Leonard Leo orchestrates these millions to get judges confirmed. In Trump, Leo saw someone to help accomplish his "long-held" goal: "A federal court system dominated by conservative judges who believe the Constitution must be interpreted literally."
Article explains how one of Leo's nonprofits, America Engaged, passed $1M to the @NRA in 2017, which ran $1M ad campaign for #SCOTUS appointee Neil Gorsuch, aimed at lawmakers in MT, IN, MO and ND who supported gun control. The ads' message? “Your freedom is on the line.”
WATCH: In this short video, reporters pressed Leo about details of some of these shady nonprofits. Leo responded: 'I don't waste my time on stories that involve money in politics' wapo.st/2JTWGVW
These nonprofits funding campaigns to confirm conservative judicial nominees are "unelected and unaccountable," @SenWhitehouse tells the @WashingtonPost. Again, link to the investigation here: washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/…
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Last week senators agreed to confirm 15 judicial nominees (3 Circuit, 12 district) in exchange for the guarantee that the Senate would then recess till after the election.

Despite this, @senjudiciary is holding a hearing for six more nominees tomorrow. #ProtectOurCourts [1/7]
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