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Wow — quite a confession. “Tremendous investment,” indeed. But not just time — money too, covertly, in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Hmmm, I wonder why...
foxnews.com/politics/behin…
McGahn: working on this were “at least six, sometimes as many as 10... very serious people... who knew what they were looking for...." You bet they did. After all, they were “shaping ‘the future of the country’ in... ‘an increasingly wide range of issues’" for big secret donors.
Now dark-money-funded Carrie Severino (see @judicialnetwork in our Captured Courts report) runs "a large team of extraordinarily talented lawyers” who know what is wanted at “the intersection of law and public policy” and will “do it right."
democrats.senate.gov/dpcc/press-rep…
Yes, you can read a lot into “knew what they were looking for,” “shaping ‘the future of the country’” and “do[ing] it right." The big-Republican-donor court capture operation is now brazen. Except that they still won’t reveal the special interests paying for the scheme.
Even “courage,” normally a virtue, here means judges who’ll stick to their partisan guns and pay back their appointers even if it upsets colleagues, the public, or the law. Who wins is what matters. This is a capture scheme, and they want judges who’ll stay bought.
Sadly, an appellate judge told me he now sees judges “auditioning” for this, writing decisions not on facts and law, not to do justice among parties, but to signal their availability and reliability.

Kavanaugh was an auditioning champion; look where he got.
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