They are just pouring money into anti-LGBTQ causes and the Republicans…
It is time to bring back the upper tax brackets like in the 50s and 60s where the upper brackets were 90% and also bring back the estate taxes to prevent dynasties.
They made their money from off of our backs, it is time that they are taxed to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless.
Powerful conservative operative’s Do No Harm group is a threat to transgender kids (exclusive)We are not the only ones he is going after but also…
Leonard Leo, the man responsible for reshaping the U.S. Supreme Court into an ultra-conservative body, is targeting trans youth’s access to gender-affirming care.
The Advocate
By Christopher Wiggins
August 13, 2024
Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization established in 2022 to combat what it calls ”wokeism” in medicine, has quickly emerged as a formidable force in the anti-transgender movement. With substantial financial backing from a conservative network led by conservative legal operative Leonard Leo, the group has focused on opposing gender-affirming care, posing a significant threat to the LGBTQ+ community. But what is the group really up to?
Leo, a key figure in the conservative legal movement, is known for his instrumental role in shaping the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority. According to ProPublica, Leo built the machine that remade the American legal system, advising former President Donald Trump on the nominations of now-justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. He previously helped pick or confirm the court’s three other conservative justices: Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito. Leo’s influence extends beyond the judiciary, as he now channels considerable resources into various conservative causes, including Do No Harm.
His name pops up again,Inside Conservative Activist Leonard Leo’s Long Campaign To Gut Planned Parenthood
KFF Health News
By Rachana Pradhan
August 16, 2024A federal lawsuit in Texas against Planned Parenthood has a web of ties to conservative activist Leonard Leo, whose decades-long effort to steer the U.S. court system to the right overturned Roe v. Wade, yielding the biggest rollback of reproductive health access in half a century.
Brought by an anonymous whistleblower and later joined by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the suit alleges the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and three Planned Parenthood affiliates defrauded the Texas and Louisiana Medicaid programs by collecting $17 million for services provided while it fought state efforts to remove it as an approved provider.
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Leo, an anti-abortion Catholic, is connected to the key players in the Texas lawsuit — the whistleblower plaintiff, an attorney general, and the judge — according to a KFF Health News review of tax records, court documents from multiple lawsuits, statements to lawmakers, and website archives.
Leo provided legal counsel to the anti-abortion group at its center, and he has financial and other connections to Paxton.
They filed the case in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, where Matthew Kacsmaryk is the only judge. He is a longtime member of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal juggernaut for which Leo has worked for over 25 years in various capacities and currently serves as co-chair.
Then we have the billionaire who is mentoring JD Vance.The Lever identifies Leonard Leo as main villain behind swing state voter purge
The Daily Kos
By Alonso del Arte
August 26, 2024Dictator wannabe Donald Trump can still win this election. Not fair and square by winning the popular vote, obviously, but through a combination of voter suppression and voter intimidation tactics that might give him another Electoral College misfire.
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Katya Schwenk reporting for The Lever:Behind a new slate of GOP lawsuits aimed at suppressing voters in electoral battleground states is a cadre of lawyers tied to Leonard Leo — the judicial activist widely credited with engineering the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority.
On Aug. 8, the Republican National Committee filed a last-ditch legal challenge in Arizona, asking the United States Supreme Court to remove 40,000 people from the state’s voter rolls by Thursday, the deadline for some counties to print ballots. The case could tip the election results in a critical swing state that President Joe Biden won in 2020 by less than 11,000 votes.
The lawyer leading Republicans’ case is Tyler Green, a partner at Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, a small but highly influential conservative law firm that has received millions from a Leo-linked nonprofit. He is also the administrative trustee of a dark-money slush fund run by Leo that in 2022 received a record-breaking $1.6 billion donation from an elusive billionaire.
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Leo and his political apparatus have exerted influence by installing conservative judges, then spearheading cases before those judges that have the potential to skew the country’s laws in their favor. It’s why Leo is credited with helping to overturn Roe v. Wade — and now his operation appears to be using the same playbook to control swing-state ballot boxes, with the potential to tip the scales this November.
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Leo has wielded power by amassing immense financial influence through a network of clandestine nonprofits that obscure where exactly his billions are going — an arrangement that is now under investigation by Washington, D.C.’s attorney general. Leo’s network bankrolled Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation campaign and arranged payments to Ginni Thomas, Thomas’s wife, while his legal groups had cases before the Supreme Court.
In another Forbes article,Here Are J.D. Vance’s Biggest Billionaire Donors
The richest donors to his 2022 Senate bid included stalwart Republican megadonors and Silicon Valley billionaires. Some have yet to put their weight behind the Republican ticket.
Forbes
By Leo Kamin
July 19, 2024Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio senator J.D. Vance, has always had a dual appeal. He comes from the rust belt–the impoverished southwest corner of Ohio he details in Hillbilly Elegy–but has excelled in the centers of America’s elite–at Yale Law School and the VC firms of Silicon Valley.
He drew on that appeal as a Senate candidate in 2022. He brought in donations from staples of the Republican donor base, including Elizabeth Uihlein and Kelly Loeffler. But he also pulled in large sums from tech billionaires like Roku’s Anthony Wood and Oculus’ Palmer Luckey.
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The potential veep himself might also take some credit for bringing the world’s richest man fully into the MAGA fold. In the wake of Vance’s announcement, The Wall Street Journal reported that Elon Musk was committing $45 million a month to a pro-Trump PAC. “TRUMP VANCE,” he recently posted on X. “Resounds with victory.”
1. Peter Thiel
Donations to Vance groups: $15 million | Net worth: $7.9 billion
Vance once described a talk Thiel gave as “the most significant moment of my time at Yale Law School.” He said it helped him realize that he was overly “obsessed with obtaining professional credentials,” even though it was Thiel himself–a PayPal co-founder and early investor in Facebook–who helped provide Vance with one of the first of many impressive resume lines. Soon after law school, Vance took a job as a principal a Mithril Capital, a VC firm Thiel cofounded. He didn’t stay long, but the pair’s bond clearly endured: Thiel dished out more than $15 million to support Vance in 2022. A once self-professed libertarian who has published lengthy treatises on political theory, Thiel backed Trump in 2016, but recently told The Atlantic that he regretted it and would be staying out of politics in 2024. That could change with his former employee now on the ticket.
Now do you think Trump picked Sen. Vance for his political skills or his deep-pocket friends?JD Vance And Peter Thiel: What To Know About The Relationship Between Trump’s VP Pick And The Billionaire
By Antonio Pequeño IV
July 16, 2024JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, has had a long, collaborative relationship with GOP donor and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, one that has aided Vance from his time in venture capital to his role as an Ohio senator.
Vance and Thiel’s relationship dates back to 2011, when the senator met Thiel following a talk the venture capitalist gave at Yale Law School that Vance has characterized as “the most significant moment of my time” at the institution, according to a blog post he wrote for Catholic magazine The Lamp.
Vance began planning for a career pivot outside of law following the talk, noting Thiel was “possibly the smartest person” he ever met and that Thiel’s Christian faith “defied the social template I had constructed—that dumb people were Christians and smart ones atheists,” according to the post.
Thiel later became a “pretty good mentor” to Vance, according to The Washington Post, with Vance making the switch to venture capital and joining the Thiel-co-founded Mithril Capital in 2015 as a partner, according to Politico.
It is time to bring back the upper tax brackets like in the 50s and 60s where the upper brackets were 90% and also bring back the estate taxes to prevent dynasties.
They made their money from off of our backs, it is time that they are taxed to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless.
There is a survey going around on Facebook by Pew Research: Are you a Faith and Flag Conservative? Progressive Left? Or somewhere in between?
Of course I am a flaming liberal. One of the questions was about us and the results so far might floor you...
You answered: Greater social acceptance of people who are transgender is good for society
Good = 88%
Bad = 38%
Good = 88%
Bad = 38%
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