
101: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on The Right’s 50-Year Scheme to Capture SCOTUS
The Al Franken Podcast
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Those Ads That Were Run Against My Former Legal Counsel, Josh Riley
In Citizens United, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority decision and he said that there would be disclosure. But of course that didn't happen. So a super PAC can spend an infinite amount of money attacking my opponent as long as it's not coordinated with my campaign. You get ads like the millions of dollars of ads that were run against my former legal counsel, Josh Riley in New York's 19th. And these dark money groups ran these sick, dark 180 degree lies against Josh that made me sick. It was like the Josh Riley's radical allies wanted to fund the police and then they'd run darkened to slow down footage of Josh to make him look sinister. He lost by 1% in
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