🚨🧵NEW in @NYMag: It turns out that in 2017, "Samuel Alito, author of the Dobbs decision setting women’s health care back a few centuries, added a knighthood to his...résumé, pledging an oath to the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George."
nymag.com/intelligencer/… @ninaburleigh breaks it down brilliantly, as usual:

"Alito, who referenced a 17th-century witch-hunter’s legal reasoning in his Dobbs decision, accepted the Knight Grand Cross of Merit, the highest rank available to non-nobles in the order, at a mass in St. Matthews Cathedral."

MEGA 📽️ 🧵: We sat down w @Gareth_Gore and @AndrewLSeidel for a deep dive into Gareth’s explosive new book on #OpusDei, OPUS: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church.

Full video👇 CLIPS in 🧵 OPUS is a staggering and disturbing masterwork of investigative reporting. Financial journalist @Gareth_Gore brings the receipts on #OpusDei’s history of abuse, child grooming, human trafficking, + use of dark money networks to secretly shape society in its theocratic mold. /2

🚨WTF is Project 2025!? Is any of this possible?

📸🧵🧶 on our NEW campaign with the ninja democracy warriors at @WeAreUFD.

Like, Share, RT, VOTE! 🎇

project2025.wtf WTF is Trump’s Project 2025, anyway?

🚨🧵 A new book from @gareth_gore blows the lid off a stunning $1B conspiracy of graft and human trafficking by the theofascist sect Opus Dei, documenting its close ties to Leonard Leo and the MAGA justices' attack on Roe.

Don't look away

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kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/g… The story is beyond wild. Gore, a financial journalist, was covering the 2017 collapse of the Spanish Banco Popular, which almost tanked Europe's economy.

What he found: a secret dark-money “syndicate” of Opus Dei elite had funneled $1B to fund OD operations around the world.

🧵"The princess and the judge: Samuel Alito’s ties to a German aristocrat who defends the far right"

The @guardian details Alito's entanglements with a German princess and her network of extremist theocrats, like the guy who converted JD Vance. Wild. 👇

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s… Alito disclosed that this princess gave him $900 "concert tickets." He didn't mention that he slept at her castle, as @AbbieVanSickle reported this week. (Ironically, this omission was probably legal, exempted as "personal hospitality." Court reform now.)

nytimes.com/2024/09/09/us/…

🧵As Trump brags about appointing the justices who overturned Roe and unleashed a wave of attacks on women’s freedoms, we’re learning how the same dark-money groups who picked his judges are working to undermine citizen-led efforts in Florida to protect women’s bodily autonomy 👇 2/ Anti-abortion groups in Florida are ramping up efforts against the state's abortion access ballot initiative. If passed, it would overturn a law banning abortions after six weeks.

Here's what's happening behind the scenes: slate.com/news-and-polit…

🧵 1/ As more and more Americans learn about Project 2025, they’re repelled by it. But with Trump trying to distance himself from its toxic agenda, many voters don’t believe it’s real or feasible.

Big thread on why that’s seriously misguided. 👇newyorker.com/magazine/2024/… 2/ Last week’s @NewYorker exposé☝️on the dark-money juggernaut CPI shows how it’s driving Project 2025’s sweeping plan to impose theocratic authoritarian rule over the United States—and working hand-in-glove w/ MAGA Republican lawmakers to do it.

🚨 Mega 🧵🧵on JD Vance, Trump's far-right VP pick, highlighting the extreme dangers he poses to American democracy, values, and our shared prosperity. Vance is an election denier, and specifically stated that if he had been vice president on January 6, 2021, he would have blocked certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-va…

Perhaps unintentionally, multiple Senate Republicans here acknowledge that Alito is breaking the federal recusal law by sitting on Trump's cases. @sahilkapur
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nbcnews.com/politics/congr… "Any justice...shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned," or "where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party."

Leonard Leo and the judges he installed under Trump are working to constitutionalize fetal personhood. That would mean a national abortion ban, full stop.

Here’s how they’re doing it 🧵 👇

https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1785027456925307174

Robert George is one of Leo’s closest and most influential allies. Like Leo, George has close ties to Opus Dei, the cult-like, theocratic Catholic prelature that’s currently at war with Pope Francis and mired in disturbing abuse allegations.

ft.com/content/53bbc8…

🧵🧵The foundations of American law are crumbling under the weight of the Supreme Court's corrupt activism. Law profs simply can't teach it with a straight face.

Don't take my word for it. Read these 🔥🔥 quotes from our leading legal luminaries in the @nytimes @nytopinion The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law
nytimes.com/2024/02/26/opi…

It’s increasingly clear that universities, media, and corporate America are all woefully unprepared for (or just clueless about) the all-out assault being leveled against them by far-right dark money forces. This is straight from the authoritarian playbook. More on this trend: time.com/6319108/conser…

Leonard Leo dark money goon @mrddmia talks a big game but shuts up real fast when the press asks him about the Kavanaugh sexual assault cover up he led for @ChuckGrassley.

Here's what they did 🧵🧵🧵

https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1658284389367775233

@ChuckGrassley was made aware of a highly credible firsthand eyewitness account of ANOTHER sexual assault by Kavanaugh.

@mrddmia buried it to get Kavanaugh confirmed.

"Unfazed and determined," said the guy in charge of the totally real investigation.
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

THREAD on the blood-stained Supreme Court and its big gift to the gun lobby, DC. v. Heller. Scalia's Heller opinion invented an individual right to bear arms on a theory that Chief Justice Burger called a "fraud." Here's a story showing just how big a fraud that case really was. Scalia famously loved hunting and took countless all-expenses-paid hunting trips during his time on the Court, often on the (undisclosed) dime of gun lobbyists. In March 2007, he went Nuremberg, Germany for the NRA-funded World Forum for the Future of Sport Shooting Activities.