A private organization, funded by secretive anonymous donors, has an improper role in the selection of federal judges and justices. It’s called the Federalist Society. And Justice Kavanaugh is there tonight.
.@FedSoc was “insourced” by the Trump White House to choose federal judges and particularly to choose Supreme Court judges.
They hand-selected Kavanaugh and helped fund his nasty confirmation battle.
They hand-selected Kavanaugh and helped fund his nasty confirmation battle.
This isn’t some hypothesis. The EVP of @FedSoc Leonard Leo boasted on TV about the list he gave Trump of potential Supreme Court nominees. And he ushered Kavanaugh onto, and to the top of, the list.
Right now, Kavanaugh is there, paying back.
Right now, Kavanaugh is there, paying back.
This smells, because @FedSoc is funded by big special interests that can end up with cases before the Supreme Court, with new Justice Kavanaugh, who is right now performing before their organization.
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The dark money funding network is elaborate, and clearly designed to hide the string-pullers out to capture the Court and make it their political tool.
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So, the same group that spent millions to get Kavanaugh on the court now welcomes him back to their black-tie dinner as a hero. Right now, that’s where Kavanaugh is, happy to return their favor — payback time!
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Kavanaugh dodged ethics scrutiny by getting off the DC Circuit and on the Supreme Court, the only nine judges on the federal bench WITHOUT a code of ethics. Which is why he can headline a fundraiser for the group that deposited him on the Court.
And the big payback is keeping up Justice Roberts’ string of more than 75 5-4 decisions, partisan in makeup, implicating big Republican donor interests, where the big Republican donor interests won every time.
Now that’s REAL payback!
Now that’s REAL payback!
