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Jun 10

Easing the Burden of Student Debt

We promise our nation’s children that higher education is the golden ticket to economic prosperity. What we don’t tell them is that many hardworking, fiscally-responsible graduates struggle with burdensome student loans, which are crushing generations of students and their families. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, student…

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Easing the Burden of Student Debt
Easing the Burden of Student Debt

May 15

Court Capture Covered by the Washington Post

The Washington Post recently published the story of how big right-wing donors snatched control of the courts via Donald Trump’s judicial picks. …

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Apr 5

Senators Unveil New Captured Courts Report Exposing the Judicial Crisis Network’s Central Role in a Scheme to Capture and Control the Supreme Court

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…

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Senators Unveil New Captured Courts Report Exposing the Judicial Crisis Network’s Central Role in a…
Senators Unveil New Captured Courts Report Exposing the Judicial Crisis Network’s Central Role in a…

Dec 20, 2021

The Summit for Democracy: What’s Next?

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…

Dark Money

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The Summit for Democracy: What’s Next?
The Summit for Democracy: What’s Next?

Oct 26, 2021

Senate Democrats Release New Captured Courts Report on One-Year Anniversary of Barrett Confirmation Showing String of Wins for Right-Wing Donor Interests

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…

Supreme Court

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Senate Democrats Release New Captured Courts Report on One-Year Anniversary of Barrett Confirmation…
Senate Democrats Release New Captured Courts Report on One-Year Anniversary of Barrett Confirmation…

Oct 15, 2021

Whitehouse Statement on SCOTUS Commission Interim Report

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…

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Whitehouse Statement on SCOTUS Commission Interim Report
Whitehouse Statement on SCOTUS Commission Interim Report

Sep 29, 2021

Senators Unveil New Captured Courts Report on Texas Assault on Reproductive Rights

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…

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Senators Unveil New Captured Courts Report on Texas Assault on Reproductive Rights
Senators Unveil New Captured Courts Report on Texas Assault on Reproductive Rights

Aug 4, 2021

The Scheme #3: Latent Virus

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…

The Supreme Court

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The Scheme #3: Latent Virus
The Scheme #3: Latent Virus

Aug 4, 2021

The Scheme #5: The Federalist Society

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…

Court Capture

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The Scheme #5: The Federalist Society
The Scheme #5: The Federalist Society

Jul 14, 2021

The Scheme 2: Powell on the Court

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…

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The Scheme 2: Powell on the Court
The Scheme 2: Powell on the Court
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