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John,

Over the past few months – maybe even years – you may have heard the name Leonard Leo in a whirlwind of conversations regarding Clarence Thomas, dark money and judicial confirmations.

Most recently, he was in the headlines for bankrolling a $1.8 million PR campaign to boost Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s reputation, which was reported by the Washington Post.

So, who is Leonard Leo anyway?

Leonard Leo is one of the most powerful people in America’s judicial system — who’s never been confirmed or elected.

In 1991, Leonard Leo was about to join the Federalist Society, an organization promoting conservative and libertarian jurists, as one of its first paid employees. But he delayed his start date to gather research in support of Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court, after meeting Thomas in 1990.

That was only the beginning of Leo’s impact on the Supreme Court.

Over the last 30 years, Leo helped push the Supreme Court nominations of all of the conservative justices now on the court — Thomas, Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett — and built up a massive dark money war chest along the way.

Between 2014 and 2017, Leo helped conservative nonprofits raise $250 million from undisclosed, dark money donors. And since then, he’s raised even more — we’re talking about billions of dollars.

Leo’s efforts to shape the Supreme Court have clearly had an impact, visible in high profile decisions made in the last few weeks. John, that’s the power dark money can have in our country.

CREW is fighting for transparency and an end to big money in politics. But we can only take on this dark money network if we all stand together. Can you join the fight and make a grassroots donation to CREW today? [[link removed]]

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Leonard Leo has operated in the shadows for decades.

*
He
raised
the
single
biggest
known
dark
money
contribution
ever
($1.6
billion)
for
his
network
of
nonprofits.
*
He
arranged
for
Ginni
Thomas,
wife
of
Clarence
Thomas,
to
be
paid
tens
of
thousands
of
dollars
for
consulting
work
over
a
decade
ago,
specifying
that
her
name
be
left
off
billing
paperwork.
*
He
spent
nearly
two
decades
working
with
the
Judicial
Crisis
Network
to
reshape
the
court
and
overturn
Roe
v.
Wade.
*
He
helped
facilitate
the
sale
of
former
White
House
senior
adviser
Kellyanne
Conway’s
polling
company
—
as
she
advocated
for
his
handpicked
list
of
Supreme
Court
candidates.
*
He
gave
away
$182.7
million
to
prop
up
conservative
groups
through
a
nonprofit
group
called
Marble
Freedom
Trust.

When our judicial system can be so clearly influenced by dark money groups, that’s a bad sign for our democracy.

We’re working to reform campaign finance laws and create a government that actually works on behalf of the people rather than big donors or powerful industries.

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