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The scheme : how the right wing used dark money to capture the Supreme Court / Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, with Jennifer Mueller.

by Whitehouse, Sheldon, 1955-

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The New Press, 2022.

324.780973 W593s

United States. Supreme Court.

Campaign funds -- United States.

Political action committees -- United States.

Business and politics -- United States.

Corporations -- Political activity -- United States.

Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-

9781620977385 (hc)

xi, 288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee recounts how anonymous mega-donors on the far right seized control of the U.S. Judiciary, including a majority of the Supreme Court Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it influenced the Trump administration's appointment of over 230 'business-friendly' judges, including fifty-four judges for United States courts of appeal, 174 judges for United States district courts, and the last three Justices of the United States Supreme Court. Whitehouse traces the motive to control the court system back to Lewis Powell's notorious memo, which gave a road map for corporate influence to target the judiciary, and chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups, aided and abetted by Republican justices in cases from Bellotti v. Bank of Massachusetts to the infamous Citizens United. The scheme utilized the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, spent secret millions to support the nominees, orchestrated an "amicus brief" signaling apparatus, and propped up front-group litigants to 'fast-lane' strategic test cases to the friendly Justices. Whitehouse finds the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations running operations that he likens to 'covert ops,' ultimately enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance the anti-government agenda of a small number of corporate oligarchs. The world got a glimpse of this story when the Senator's presentation at the Amy Comey Barrett hearing went viral. Now, full of unique insights and inside stories, The Scheme further pulls back the curtain on a powerful and hidden apparatus that has spent years trying secretly to corrupt our politics, control our courts, and degrade our democracy."--Publisher.

Mueller, Jennifer (Lawyer)

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