Thread by @BobKerns

@whatisaidis @UtneTorvald @RedStateBlues_ @kazweida Pat Robertson's Reagent University, and therein lies a tale.

The first thing you need to know is he joined Jews for Jesus, and his first SCOTUS case was Jews for Jesus vs LAX, which got him Robertson's attention and the rest of us "free speech tables" at airports, etc.

@whatisaidis @UtneTorvald @RedStateBlues_ @kazweida The second thing to know is he leveraged that into playing a MAJOR role in RW evangelist circles as a litigator for supposed oppression of Christians. Despite his initial SCOTUS victory, he's lost most of his cases there, but won a few important ones.

@whatisaidis @UtneTorvald @RedStateBlues_ @kazweida And finally, he's leveraged all that into quite effective grift, as outlined by this WaPo article.

washingtonpost.com/investigations…

@whatisaidis @UtneTorvald @RedStateBlues_ @kazweida I'll add that his (it's really his now) ACLJ (deliberately named similarly to the ALCU) meddles in European politics, too. And in Russia:

@whatisaidis @UtneTorvald @RedStateBlues_ @kazweida It was probably Pence who brought him in, through their ties in RW Christian broadcasting.

@whatisaidis @UtneTorvald @RedStateBlues_ @kazweida Here are some of the ties and interrelations:

@whatisaidis @UtneTorvald @RedStateBlues_ @kazweida And this fundraising contract gives insight to how he goes about his grift.

evernote.com/l/AA9i6lVRmK5B…