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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: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The New Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: xi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781620977385
  • 1620977389
Subject(s):
Contents:
Climate denial, regulatory capture, and covert ops -- Of courts and corporations -- Of social gains and election losses -- The plan : the Powell memo -- Building the influence machine : campaign finance cases -- Mercenaries, fringe groups, and lobbyists -- The front group archipelago -- Super PACs, 501(C)s, and corporate shareholders -- The Federalist Society turnstile -- The doctrine factory and casting call -- The Senate conveyor belt -- Plaintiffs of convenience, and friends of the court -- Ripe for capture -- The 80 (aka the prize) -- Cases controlling the political process -- Cases protecting corporate interests -- Cases restricting civil rights -- Cases advancing a far-right social agenda -- So-called conservative principles -- The shadow docket -- The scheme.
Summary: "A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee recounts how anonymous donors seized control of the U.S. Judiciary, including the Supreme Court"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee" (Kirkus Reviews) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court

"There's no senator I can think of who's done more sleuthing to figure out the money trail in American politics, particularly as it affects the courts."--Jane Mayer, author of the national bestseller Dark Money

As the story of Supreme Court malfeasance and ethics violations repeatedly makes front-page news, the paperback version of The Scheme comes at a time of crisis for the American judiciary.

Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, whom Senator Elizabeth Warren calls a "a powerful voice in defending our American democracy against the relentless, pervasive--and often hidden--power of corporate special interests," here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the United States Supreme Court. Whitehouse chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups, helped by the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, employing the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, and with the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance their anti-government agenda.

Now available in an affordable paperback edition with a new preface addressing the Reverend Schenck disclosures about politicking the justices and Justice Thomas's recently disclosed conflicts of interest, The Scheme offers what Kirkus Reviews calls "a maddening indictment of a corrupt and corrupted judiciary."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate denial, regulatory capture, and covert ops -- Of courts and corporations -- Of social gains and election losses -- The plan : the Powell memo -- Building the influence machine : campaign finance cases -- Mercenaries, fringe groups, and lobbyists -- The front group archipelago -- Super PACs, 501(C)s, and corporate shareholders -- The Federalist Society turnstile -- The doctrine factory and casting call -- The Senate conveyor belt -- Plaintiffs of convenience, and friends of the court -- Ripe for capture -- The 80 (aka the prize) -- Cases controlling the political process -- Cases protecting corporate interests -- Cases restricting civil rights -- Cases advancing a far-right social agenda -- So-called conservative principles -- The shadow docket -- The scheme.

"A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee recounts how anonymous donors seized control of the U.S. Judiciary, including the Supreme Court"-- Provided by publisher.

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