The conservative judicial activist used BH Fund to facilitate the nominations of conservative judges, but it closed down just three days after POLITICO inquired about its role in the 2017 purchase of Kellyanne Conway’s business.
of dark-money groups to administer it. Critics have long maintained that understanding how Leo has distributed his trove of anonymous funds is critical to understanding how the conservative legal movement claimed a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Since POLITICO first contacted Leo and CRC last fall, they have not disputed BH Fund’s involvement in the transaction. In 2019,for a Washington Post documentary, Leo said: “um, BH Fund is a charitable organization. You can look it up.” He continued: “I don’t waste my time on stories that involve money in politics because what I care about is ideas.”
“There are clear indications based on the facts at hand that Ms. Conway participated personally and substantially in advising President Trump to nominate Justices to the Supreme Court, and that her personal financial interests were affected,” the complaint submitted to the Senate said. CRC spokesperson Kennedy said “liberal watchdog groups” who filed the complaint should instead urge hearings on a company that ran administration and management for athat fought Trump’s judicial nominations and spent millions around the 2020 election.
Yet Democrats still control the Senate and its oversight committees. And concerns about the role of dark money in shaping the court’s new conservative majority are growing louder after the new conservative majorityThe Conway transaction “is further evidence of the troubling role that Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society played in driving Donald Trump’s judicial selection process,” Sen. DickThe complaint sent to Sen.
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