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Mar 23 5 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Leo runs what is in essence a domestic covert operation funded by creepy billionaires who want to impose their unwelcome ideology through unrepresentative courts. 🧵
politico.com/news/2024/03/2…
The spending for the covert op is somewhere above $580 million. Probably a lot above. They are not kidding around.
And it worked. They captured the Supreme Court and turned it into their political weapon, to the benefit of polluters, Republican Party, and religious extremists.
They work through dark money and layers of front groups, some mere “fictitious names.” They fear daylight more than anything, hence the attacks on anyone probing their mischief.
The narrative of victimhood conceals an aggressive billionaire-funded clandestine plot to exercise unseen control over our democracy. Some victims.

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Mar 22
“Misguided”? The model for many of these suits was litigation the U.S. Department of Justice brought and won against the tobacco industry for fraudulently misleading people about the dangerous effects of its product.   I emphasize:  and won. 🧵
thehill.com/opinion/energy…
“Misguided”? DOJ won a court order saying to the industry, in essence, “thou shalt lie no more.”  With its fraud strategy foreclosed, the industry had to change its ways. Federal tobacco policy shifted, as without lies, tobacco lobbying practices collapsed.
“Misguided”? The result was hundreds of thousands of lives saved, because DOJ back then was willing to fight a huge battle against a monster industry’s campaign of fraud, and win.  It is a shame that today’s DOJ seems unable to summon the same resolve.
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Mar 21
America is dealing with a lot of problems caused by unchecked corporate power. I’ve got a bipartisan bill to help with that. 🧵
While working people pay their fair share in taxes, giant corporations skirt their responsibilities by exploiting tax loopholes. Since the 1950s, the corporate share of national tax revenue has fallen from around 25% to just 6%.
One of these tax loopholes is found in a sneaky place: giant mergers. Record numbers of giant mergers have created an anti-competitive economic landscape for small businesses across our country.
Read 7 tweets
Mar 10
Here’s how climate crashes into the economy: first, coastal properties/wildfire-risk properties become uninsurable; then, without insurance there aren’t mortgages for buyers; then, property values crash because no mortgages and cash-only becomes the market.bloomberg.com/features/2024-…
Here’s the variant: states set up insurers of last resort to stem the uninsurability problem, but the risk doesn’t change.
And (1) climate disasters take out the state insurers of last resort, or (2) the assigned-loss risk those insurers present causes mass flight of other insurers, so as not to be left holding the bag.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 29
I've long argued America and other rule-of-law nations are in a clash of civilizations against kleptocracies and international criminal networks, whose leaders amass fortunes in illicit money. 🧵
From Putin's oligarchs to fentanyl traffickers to corrupt dictators to Chinese money laundering networks, a world of evil exists outside the rule of law, where the money is made.
But, they then seek the shelter of rule of law, where the money is secretly hidden, safe from the next bigger thief.
Read 9 tweets
Feb 23
It is the business model of the fossil fuel industry to push the costs of its pollution and mess onto the public, allowing it to underprice cheap clean energy. 
propublica.org/article/the-ri…
It’s not just bad economics; it’s a lethal prescription costing us trillions of dollars (per Deloitte and IMF, not greenies).
And it is the political model of the fossil fuel industry to slice off a sliver of its massive profits/subsidies to (usually covertly) fund political lies, mischief, obstruction, propaganda and bullying.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 21
Judicial fact-finding. What could possibly be more boring?

Right, a law review article. Well, not so fast.

This captured Supreme Court specializes in phony fact-finding, a new thing for the Court. My new law review article examines that. 🧵
Start with a simple principle: appellate courts don’t find facts; trial courts find facts. So the Supreme Court’s fact-finding is weird, even if they weren’t making up false facts.

Why is it the general rule that trial courts find facts?
First, adversarial process sheds a lot of light on facts (argument, cross-examination, challenging the experts, and all) to keep them real; and appeals courts can send back errors.
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