The Washington Post recently published the story of how big right-wing donors snatched control of the courts via Donald Trump’s judicial picks. This is how we ended up with a private organization — accountable only to its dark-money donors — hand-picking all of Trump’s Supreme Court justices, and how that…

Senate Democrats detail web of front groups intended to obscure right-wing donors’ dark-money machine The DISCLOSE Act, which all 50 Democrats have voted for and all 50 Republicans have filibustered, would end the influence of dark money in our politics READ THE REPORT HERE Washington, DC — Senate Democrats, led…

America is engaged in a ‘clash of civilizations’ between rule-of-law nations and autocracy, kleptocracy, and criminality. Democracy is in retreat across the world, even here in America. These twin challenges are massive. That’s why it was so important for President Biden to host the Summit for Democracy earlier this month…

Big-money special interests reap huge return on dark-money investment Sweeping protection for dark-money interests and widespread use of “shadow docket” dominate 6–3 Republican-appointed majority’s record READ THE NEW REPORT HERE Washington, DC — Senate Democrats — led by Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Majority Leader…

Washington, DC — Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, released the following statement regarding the interim report of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States: “This report is a disappointment to anyone who’d hoped for a hard-hitting effort to address the…

Washington, DC — Senate Democrats, led by Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), released a new report in their Captured Courts series on the corrosive effect of a Supreme Court controlled by dark-money interests on women’s reproductive…

Mr. President, I am delighted to follow the majority leader and his strong remarks about the beginning of the process of passing S. 1, not only to deal with the question of voting rights but to deal with the question of the dark money plague that is infesting our democracy…

Mr. President, I am here once again to shed a little light on the dark money scheme to capture and control our Supreme Court. As folks may recall, my first two speeches covered the early foundation of this scheme — a prominent conservative lawyer Lewis Powell’s detailed strategy memo for…

Madam President, in my opening speech about the right-wing scheme to capture the Court, the Supreme Court, I described the secret strategy memo that Lewis Powell wrote on the eve of his appointment to the Court about how to deploy corporate political power. As a Justice of the Supreme Court…