"John Roberts life’s work of repealing the 20th century is essentially complete. What is clear about him is that he is determined to use the Supreme Court to systematically dismantle every outrage against white supremacy and oligarchy that were passed by 20th century congresses and upheld by 20th century Supreme Court majorities:"
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-sunday-reid-john-roberts-corrupt
"civil rights, voting rights, affirmative action, the admission of nonwhite immigrants, workers rights, environmental care, the secularization of American society, women’s liberation through the right to access contraception and abortion, and LGBTQ rights."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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"People often forget that the economically and politically corrupt Gilded Age and the vicious, apartheid Jim Crow era occurred at the same time, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and following the collapse of Reconstruction. The two ill systems fed and needed each other to survive."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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"The seats from which Roberts now operates this mechanism were purchased. I use the word with care. They were purchased through a documented dark-money pipeline that runs from the fossil fuel industry through the Republican Attorneys General Association and the Federalist Society‘s network into judicial confirmation campaigns. The receipts are public."
~ Mike Brock
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #DarkMoney
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-industrys-court-in-a-stolen-republic
"Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has tracked the pipeline across multiple investigations. Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust, established in 2020, controls a $1.6 billion dark-money fund."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"The Trust gave $153 million to Leo’s Rule of Law Trust in 2021. The Rule of Law Trust gave $36.3 million in grants to allied organizations in 2020 alone, with the Concord Fund — formerly the Judicial Crisis Network, the organization that ran the campaigns to confirm Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett — as the largest single beneficiary."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"CRC Advisors, the firm Leo controls, took in $24.9 million from Leo’s 85 Fund in 2023, with $80 million flowing from the network to CRC since Leo took over the firm in 2020.
The fossil fuel industry’s entry into this network runs through the Republican Attorneys General Association, which has received $5.8 million from oil-and-gas companies and their lobbying groups since 2020 alone."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #BigOil
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"The Concord Fund — Leo’s confirmation-campaign vehicle — has given RAGA $18.8 million since 2014, including $2 million in the first half of 2024, making it RAGA’s largest single donor. Koch Industries, the American Petroleum Institute, and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers have written six-figure checks. The circuit closes at every connection point."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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Corruption top to bottom. The simple message for people without the time to read all of this:
If you want to know who stole all the money from working people like you, it's the people with all the money.
William Lindsey 
Grassroots Joe