Thread by @ExposingALEC

Behind the dark-money web that put Barrett (and Kavanaugh and Gorsuch) on the Supreme Court salon.com/2021/03/30/beh… In 2008 Ann and Neil Corkery established the Wellspring Committee w/ help from the Kochs and raised its seedling $10 million from attendees at a #Koch donor seminar

In 1990, the Corkerys gave an interview to the South Florida Sun Sentinel describing themselves as members of Opus Dei, who "vehemently oppose legislation that allows divorce or civil marriages, as well as homosexuality and contraception."

Wellspring has donated to People for United Privacy, the Catholic Association Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes Catholic causes; and the Federalist Society, run by Leonard Leo who reportedly belongs to the Knights of Malta

in every year since Wellspring's inception, it has given millions of dollars to the Judicial Crisis Network. JCN, which has in the past been interchangeably overseen by Ann and Neil Corkery, gets over 90% of it's funding from Wellspring. The JCN is now run by Carrie Severino

#CNP Board of Governors member Carrie Severino, who once served as a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.

She is another blight on Harvard Law School

In 2016, Media Matters found that JCN consisted of just two employees, despite the enormous amounts of money that flow through the organization on a regular basis. The nonprofit's website suggests Carrie Severino is now the sole employee.

A Tangled Web Of Dark Money And Familial Ties A Media Matters investigation reveals a familial web of self-dealing between the JCN, it's major dark money funder-the Wellspring Committee, and a third nonprofit that also receives funding from Wellspring

In 2016, JCN launched a smear campaign against Merrick Garland.

JCN went to bat for Brett Kavanaugh in a big way after his 2018 nomination.

Barrett's nomination was bankrolled by the Corkerys as well.

@SenWhitehouse: The Supreme Court has become just another arm of the GOP washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-s… One unnamed donor gave $17M to the Judicial Crisis Network to block Merrick Garland's nomination and support Gorsuch; then perhaps the same one gave another $17M to prop up Kavanaugh

PolitiFact - It’s true: Sen. Whitehouse's clam that millions in dark money has been spent to tilt courts right politifact.com/factchecks/201…