Deep Cut: Leonard Leo, Judicial Kingmaker (Julian Walker; Conspirituality podcast)

Control the Court. Overturn Roe. Funnel anonymous donations and shady gifts. Deregulate for Jesus. Roll back the cultural clock. Celebrate. Rinse and Repeat.

Leonard Leo’s libertarian Catholic agenda has made him a preeminent power-broker in right-wing American politics. He’s reshaping society while enjoying the pipeline of cash and influence that connects billionaire GOP mega-donors and the SCOTUS judges he helped install.

Julian tracks how Leo’s Federalist Society used Trump as part of a decades-long systematic takeover of the judicial system that culminated in the current ethics and corruption scandal in the SCOTUS.

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Show Notes

• ProPublica “Friends of the Court” investigative journalism series 
• The Guardian Club For Growth GOP Insurrectionist Support 
• Open Secrets 2022 Donor List 
• Dark Money Spending After Citizen’s United at Open Secrets
• Senator Sheldon Whitehouse “The Front Group Swarms”

Interview: 

https://megaphone.link/GLSS9472093858