…grants from Stand Together Trust include: the Federalist Society ($1 million); Becket ($500,000); Judicial Education Institute ($150,000); Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy ($120,000); and the Committee…
Constitution in the Crosshairs: The Far Right’s Plan for a New Confederacy
…potentially to protect the environment, to protect civil rights laws, to protect voting rights. They could ban abortion in the Constitution.” Feingold is now president of the American Constitution Society…
Dispatches from the COP28 Climate Talks in Dubai
…restore the climate. Even if we were to completely halt emissions today, the British Royal Society has clearly stated that existing CO2 levels will continue to trap heat and warm…
DonorsTrust Funneled $134 Million to Right-Wing Groups in 2022
…organizations that litigate or engage in legal advocacy, according to CMD calculations. The Federalist Society — co-chaired by Leo — led all recipients with a $4.3 million grant. The Federalist…
Mock Constitutional Convention Reveals Far Right’s Vision for Rewriting the U.S. Constitution
…Russ Feingold, a former senator from Wisconsin and now president of the American Constitution Society, in The Nation. Rolling Back Federal Powers The majority of the proposals adopted at the…
Upcoming Event: The Imminent Threat of a Constitutional Convention
Co-sponsored by the American Constitution Society and Common Cause The Far Right is waging a dangerous, dark money campaign to force a constitutional convention that could radically rewrite the U.S….
Fossil Fuel Consultant and Leonard Leo Lieutenant Lobby ALEC Lawmakers on “Stopping ESG”
…also runs Consumers Defense, the sister organization of Consumers’ Research. The workshop culminated in research presented by consultant Richard Belzer, a member of the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project who…
Leonard Leo Bankrolls Former Lieutenant to Challenge GOP Incumbent in Missouri’s 2024 Race for AG
…Federalist Society as co-chair of its board of directors. Scharf, who served as president of a Federalist Society chapter as a law student at Harvard from 2008–11, also reportedly worked…
ALEC to SFOF Pipeline Unearthed
…emergency, inequities in hiring or employment, or other business practices that impact society when making decisions about pension fund investments. Despite professing to be a nonpartisan nonprofit, SFOF and its…
Utah State Treasurer Compares ESG Policies to Nazism at Heartland’s Climate Misinformation Fest
…in 2021—argued that ESG policies are not only fundamentally incompatible with free market capitalism, but that they threaten the very foundations of American society and individualism. Accompanied by a slide…