But Heidi found that Thomas immediately filed paperwork to form a for-profit consulting business - and Leo’s network reactivated a dormant tax-exempt charitable group, the Judicial Education Project, that went on to pay her an amount similar to what she had earned from Liberty Central. When Ginni Thomas was forced to step aside later in 2010, it was, by all public appearances, the end of their collaboration. The early discussions among Leo, Thomas and Crow - who, it was revealed earlier this year, has used his immense wealth to lavish the Thomases with extravagant vacations and other gifts - resulted in a “billion-dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturn longstanding legal precedents on abortion, affirmative action and many other issues.” The organization’s focus was to tear down the Obama administration’s health care agenda. Just weeks ahead of the Citizens United ruling, Ginni Thomas teamed up with Leo to create a nonprofit, Liberty Central, that would benefit from the coming ruling.
Here are some of the key findings from the piece: That is little surprise to anyone who’s paid attention these last 13 years.īut in a major investigation out this morning, Heidi Przybyla reveals something genuinely eyebrow-raising: how two conservative activists - Federalist Society leader LEONARD LEO and VIRGINIA THOMAS, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas - worked together to seize the moment and fuel a partisan political movement, with financial support from billionaire HARLAN CROW. NEW QUESTIONS CLOUD CLARENCE THOMAS - In 2010, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United dramatically expanded the influence of money in politics. Just weeks ahead of the Citizens United ruling, Virginia Thomas teamed up with Leonard Leo to create a nonprofit, Liberty Central, that would benefit from the coming ruling. SPOTTED: Symone Sanders-Townsend, Jen Psaki, Luke Russert, Ali Vitali, Amy Walter, Pete Williams, Amna Nawaz, Donna Edwards, Neal Katyal, Ruth Marcus, Monica Alba, Jake Sherman, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Cornell Belcher, Barbara and John Cochran, Kristian Denny Todd, Sena Fitzmaurice, Hallie Jackson, Courtney Kube, Carol Lee, Susan Page and Danielle Pletka.
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And it's that education piece that I’m hanging my hat on for the rest of my professional life.”Īfter the show, NBC hosted a farewell event with speeches from Todd, Welker, NBCUniversal News Group Chair CESAR CONDE and NBC News President of Editorial REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN. “So for nearly a decade, I’ve had the honor of helping to explain America to Washington and Washington to America, as Kristen just quoted me about. 1 reason folks said they tuned in was not because the person was behind the chair or the guests, it was simply to get educated,” Todd said during his handoff to KRISTEN WELKER, who will be the first Black moderator of the storied program. “On my first day on the job of ‘Meet The Press,’ I was handed an audience survey of Sunday show viewers and the No. CHUCK TODD SAYS GOODBYE TO MTP - Today was CHUCK TODD’s final appearance as moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press” after nearly a decade behind the desk.
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