[thread] Leonard Leo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo
https://persagen.org/docs/leonard_leo.html
* US lawyer/conservative legal activist
* Federalist Society co-chair
* Catholic transphobe
* n/w of dark money legal groups: 85 Fund/Concord Fund/Marble Freedom Trust
* assisted Trump SCOTUS nominations
John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett
[thread] Federalist Society
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110680050501284298
Federalist Society Won Its 40-Year War on Affirmative Action
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110680050501284298
Leonard Leo’s decades-long campaign to gut Planned Parenthood
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112978449322281069
Leonard Leo’s Effort to Gut Planned Parenthood Threatens Myriad Health Services
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112984048595838373
Leonard Leo’s Plot to Suppress Swing State Votes
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113006247929947270
Leonard Leo Bankrolls Former Lieutenant's Challenge GOP Incumbent in 2024 Missouri Race for AG
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110554839156383410
Leonard Leo Pushed the Courts Right. Now He’s Aiming at American Society.
After leading efforts to put conservatives on the bench, the activist has quietly built a sprawling network and raised huge sums of money to challenge liberal values
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/leonard-leo-courts-dark-money.html
Leonard Leo’s Concord Fund is RAGA’s Top Funder
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110815267046731271\
Leonard Leo’s Extremely Revealing Letter to a Dark-Money Group
The right-wing power broker’s call to “weaponize” conservative ideas tells us everything we need to know about his twisted vision for America
https://newrepublic.com/article/186013/leonard-leo-85-fund-revealing-letter-dark-money-group
https://persagen.org/docs/leonard_leo.html
Weaponization of language: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110781650540586495
Schwab Charitable
[thread] Campaign finance, dark money
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110953607664918460
Donor-Advised Fund Schwab Charitable Helps Leonard Leo Weaponize Philanthropy
https://inequality.org/great-divide/leonard-leo-donor-advised-fund
* conserv. judicial mastermind Leonard Leo
* Federalist Society
* kingpin, $1.6 billion dark money fund: Marble Freedom Trust
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25121805-grant_review_letter_final
https://persagen.org >> "Schwab Charitable"
Leonard Leo’s Concord Fund Tops Funders of Republican Attorneys General Association
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/10/15/leonard-leos-concord-fund-again-tops-funders-of-republican-ag-group-in-third-quarter
* $1.5M to Republican Attorneys General Association in Q3 2024
* top funder of right-wing group leading opposition to abortion rights
Leonard Leo’s Concord Fund is RAGA’s Top Funder
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110815267046731271
Republican AGs Want Health Records of Out-of-State Abortion Seekers. TX Ken Paxton Leading Charge
https://msmagazine.com/2024/10/16/republican-attorney-general-ken-paxton-texas-health-records-out-of-state-abortion-travel-biden
Leonard Leo/Concord Fund Top Funder, RAGA
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113318054904729335
* opposition to abortion rights
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #abortion #misogyny
#Texas #GregAbbott #KenPaxton #HeartbeatBill #JonathanMitchell
#GOP #HeritageFoundation #protofascism #RAGA #StateLegislatures #StateCapture
#LeonardLeo #ConcordFund
#billionaires #libertarianism #85Fund #MarbleFreedomTrust
Leonard Leo: Dark Money Kingpin Behind Election-Day Chaos
https://www.levernews.com/the-dark-money-kingpin-behind-election-day-chaos\
reposted: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/dark-money-election-leo-trump
* dubious lawsuits/conspiracy theories/voter intimidation
* conservative Supreme Court architect
* laid groundwork for distrust/upheaval
* dark money political network w. more $ than all top political parties combined
Comment:
* dangerous ultraconservative Catholic/political operative/zealot
Top Leonard Leo Lieutenant Leads ALEC Bootcamp Against Woke Capitalism
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/12/07/top-leonard-leo-lieutenant-leads-alec-bootcamp-against-woke-capitalism
* American Legislative Exchange Council
* how U.S. state legislatures can end policies/practices that address climate emergency & diversify workforce
* CRC Advisors Senior Vice President Mike Thompson
* Christian Right operative
* Leo tied to Opus Dei
Pence Dark Money Group/Leonard Leo attack RFK Jr. Confirmation Over Abortion
* Advancing American Freedom urges U.S. Senate to reject RFKjr
* Leonard Leo group CRC Advisors publicized $250k AAFcampaign
* RFKjr prev. pro-abortion
RFK Jr.
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113476752158702515
AAF
https://persagen.org/docs/advancing_american_freedom.html
https://persagen.org/docs/advisory_board.html
#MikePence #AAF #AdvancingAmericanFreedom
#LeonardLeo #Catholicism #OpusDei #CRCadvisors #DarkMoney
#Trump2 #fascism #RFKjr #HHS #antivax #antiabortion
#Christofascism #transgenocide