The Kochs’ fight to keep the Senate in Republican hands has brought the brothers in line with politicians who have built a track record of expanding intrusive government power-
-from the the ability to snoop on everyday American communications to unwavering support of the U.S.-backed bombing campaign that has killed thousands of civilians in Yemen.
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@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