The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system.

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We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority <[link removed]> The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next. by Andy Kroll, Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, illustrations by Nate Sweitzer for ProPublica

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Conservative Activist Poured Millions Into Groups Seeking to Influence Supreme Court on Elections and Discrimination <[link removed]> Newly obtained records show how Leonard Leo, an architect of the right-wing takeover of the courts, has been funding groups pushing to change elections and anti-discrimination laws. by Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Andrew Perez and Aditi Ramaswami, The Lever <[link removed]>

Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance” <[link removed]> Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture. by Andy Kroll and Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented <[link removed]>

How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts <[link removed]> In the largest known political advocacy donation in U.S. history, industrialist Barre Seid funded a new group run by Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, who guided Trump’s Supreme Court picks and helped end federal abortion rights. by Andrew Perez, The Lever, and Andy Kroll and Justin Elliott, ProPublica <[link removed]>

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