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[link removed] [[link removed]] John, you may have heard of the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United case – the case that allowed an onslaught of often anonymous, unlimited money into politics.

What you may not know though, is that in the month leading up to the Citizens United ruling, Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginni Thomas were creating an organization to take advantage of the new political landscape.

Leonard Leo and Ginni Thomas were perfectly poised to funnel millions of dollars into politics through this new dark money group to secretly push their conservative agenda.

Where did they get the money for the group? Harlan Crow, the billionaire who funded luxury vacations and tuition payments for Ginni and Clarence Thomas.

The group that Leo, Thomas and Crow helped create, Liberty Central, was just one of the first groups creating a new playbook for political influence post Citizens United. Ginni Thomas left the group in 2010 and it went out of business two years later, but not before paying her a hefty salary.

Since Liberty Central shuttered, Leo, Thomas, and Crow have only honed their tactics:

*
Leonard
Leo’s
network
of
dark
money
groups
have
since
spent
*billions*
of
dollars
to
push
the
Supreme
Court
to
the
right,
help
elect
state
attorneys
general
willing
to
do
their
bidding
and
launch
PR
campaigns
for
conservative
judicial
nominees.
*
Ginni
Thomas
tried
to
overturn
the
2020
election,
was
secretly
paid
for
other
work
related
to
Leonard
Leo’s
dark
money
groups,
and
was
appointed
to
a
Library
of
Congress
board
during
the
Trump
administration.
*
Harlan
Crow
bankrolled
secret
travel
for
Clarence
Thomas
for
years
and
donated
to
super
PACs
and
another
dark
money
group,
Americans
for
Job
Security,
that
ramped
up
its
political
activity
after
Citizens
United.
(CREW
actually
uncovered
this
as
part
of
a
lawsuit
to
drag
dark
money
donors
into
the
light.)

Leo, Thomas and Crow’s work epitomizes the corrupting influence of dark money. CREW is fighting to end dark money in politics, remove Ginni Thomas from her government post and force the Supreme Court to adopt ethics reforms. Make a 2x MATCHED donation today to support CREW’s work → [[link removed]]

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