Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo is helping Trump make courts more conservative

Leonard Leo stepped onto the stage in a darkened Florida ballroom, looked out at a gathering of some of the nation's most powerful conservative activists and told them they were on the cusp of fulfilling a long-sought dream.

, an influential nonprofit organization for conservative and libertarian lawyers that has close ties to Supreme Court justices. But behind the scenes, Leo is the maestro of a network of interlocking nonprofits working on media campaigns and other initiatives to sway lawmakers by generating public support for conservative judges.

Nine of the groups hired the same conservative media relations firm, Creative Response Concepts, collectively paying it more than $10 million in contracting fees in 2016 and 2017. During that time, the firm coordinated a months-long media campaign in support of Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil M.

In another case, a nonprofit Leo launched in 2016, the Freedom and Opportunity Fund, gave $4 million over two years to a nonprofit called Independent Women’s Voice, about half the group’s revenue, tax filings show. Leaders of Independent Women’s Voice last year spoke at rallies, wrote online commentary and appeared regularly on Fox News to promote another of Trump’s Supreme Court nominees, Brett M. Kavanaugh.

“I have a very simple rule, which is, I’m engaged in the battle of ideas, and I care very deeply about our Constitution and the role of courts in our society,” he said. “And I don’t waste my time on stories that involve money and politics because what I care about is ideas.” of himself. On a bookshelf is a photo of Leo and Kavanaugh in tuxedos. A nameplate on the shelf reads,"The Real Boss."in suburban New Jersey, where his high school yearbook lists his nickname as the “Moneybags kid” and shows a photograph of him holding a handful of cash.

At the Federalist Society, Leo took a leading role in the conservative legal movement, part of a burgeoning effort to counter the influence of the 1960s and liberals on education, law and politics. Leo came to be known in the White House as coordinator of “all outside coalition activity regarding judicial nominations,” according to a 2003 email by a White House aide to Kavanaugh and others.

Christian Dominionism is Treason. We should treat it as such. BeFree

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What? No more activist judges? Go back to interpreting the laws instead of making laws as the constitution intended. Oh, the horror! Maybe congress will have to make good laws that can’t be fudged?

An example of the most conservative theocratic authoritarian government Corporate Money can buy. The GOP won't rest until they turn the USA into a Authoritarian Theocracy Plutocracy, with the Greedy One Percent running everything. Get Money and Corporations out of Politics.

Trump is not a nationalist. Trump is a populist from the KGB destroying America.

Backstroke? Trump is destroying the farmers of the US Army and the US economy must come out openly.

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Leo Leo should mind his own business.

The Federalist Society is one of the greatest threats to the Constitution in the history of America.

An anti gay, anti abortion male.

Another dangerous man. Thinks he and his ridged standards should define all of us.

It seems to me that trying to promote conservative, ie: Christian, judges crosses the line between church & state. They are not really about 'conservative'. They really are about getting right-leaning Christian judges appointed in an attempt to create a theocracy.

Can't wait until Conservatives have so many judges that our Constitution will be safe again, and we can abolish abortion and Obergefell!!

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