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101: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on The Right’s 50-Year Scheme to Capture SCOTUS

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Leonard Leo, Now Does He Have Any Money?

Leonard Leo torpedoed Harriet Myers and put Sam Alito on the court instead. He runs a group of at any given time, probably 12 to 20 front groups that he can filter money through. The judicial crisis network is on the same hallway in the same building right down the hall from the Federalist Society - they answer each other's doors. A peculiar right wing billionaire who was previously associated with the Hartland Institute compared climate scientists to the Unabomber.

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