US Treasury Cites Koch-Funded Research In Critique Of Consumer Protections 10/27/17👉 In a rare instance of one federal agency publicly attacking another, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued an 18-page report 🤔 ibtimes.com/political-capi…
excoriating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed arbitration rule, which would prevent financial institutions from preventing class action lawsuits from customers via consumer contracts
In doing so, the department cited a paper co-authored by a George Mason University law professor who works for several campus centers heavily funded by the billionaire industrialist, free-market evangelist and far-right political donor Charles Koch.
Just one day after Treasury’s report was released, the Senate narrowly voted to strike down the rule, which took five years to create and would have gone into effect in 2018. Vice President Mike Pence, a close Koch ally, cast the deciding vote to break a Senate deadlock.
The House already voted down the arbitration rule this summer, and, as Trump is very likely to sign the bill, the rule will soon meet its end. That means corporations are free to force consumers into arbitration —
settling a dispute privately without the right to sue a company in court, participate in a class-action lawsuit or appeal.
Many of the lawmakers who voted down the arbitration rule have received boosts from the Kochs and their political network, both from direct campaign donations and independent election spending.
@jimstewartson @DemRebooted Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association/Self-described "constitutional sheriffs" believe that sheriffs are the highest governmental authority and that they have the power and duty to defy or disregard laws they deem unconstitutional.
@jimstewartson @DemRebooted Clarke is a Member of Extremist "Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association" the antigovernment organization that promotes the Posse Comitatus-derived belief, among others, that the county sheriff is the supreme law etc.
@jimstewartson @DemRebooted Richard Mack/former lobbyist for Gun Owners of America/founder-Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA)/sits on board of directors of the Oath Keepers/‘94 recruited by NRA as plaintiff over the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
@JoshKovensky Nathaniel Fischer – a venture capitalist, former Claremont Institute fellow and president of the Dallas lodge of the secretive Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) – theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…
Organizations that have received millions of dollars from the oil-soaked Koch network are supporting the effort to overturn the Chevron doctrine.
#KochNetwork
In Loper, the plaintiffs' lawyers are "working pro bono and belong to a public-interest law firm, Cause of Action, that discloses no donors and reports having no employees,"
"However," the Times added, "court records show that the lawyers work for Americans for Prosperity, a group funded by [Charles] Koch, the chairman of Koch Industries and a champion of anti-regulatory causes."
@meredithvieira @JoyVBehar @sunny @JennyMcCarthy @NicolleDWallace @Rosie @BarbaraJWalters @TheView Nikki Haley at the Council for National Policy👉Less than a week before her resignation, Haley made a pilgrimage to a secretive organization of right-wing, mostly evangelical Republican operatives known as the Council for National Policy #KochNetwork