been described as the dark money atm of the right, a koch brothers operation. back in 2,000 duke out $5,000. no big deal. by 2019, when this operation was in full sprint, if got $7 million. we don t know who the real donor was but that s the job of donors trust, to deidentify the donor. to launder the identity of the donation so that you can t connect the dots any longer. but $7 million i think is quite a lot of money. unfortunately the federalist society was not alone. write down the hallway is something called the judicial crisis network. the offices on the same hallway of the federalist society downtown. although jcm website and tax filing mailing address and address shared by multiple countries. and write down that hallway at
are unelected, who have lifetime tenure, whose salary cannot be reduced while they serve in office, they decide five of them decide this is the way the world should be. what other unenumerated rights do you believe exist? how could we possibly anticipate what those might be? for example, the ninth amendment says the enumeration in the constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people, which suggests to me that there are other unidentified rights out there. and somehow someday some court is going to tell us that we ve identified and unenumerated right and we are going to reject their right of the american people to determine what the policy out the b.s. regards to
0 christianity, judaism, islam, embraces traditional definition of marriage, correct? i am aware that there are various religious faiths that define marriage in a traditional way. do you see that when the supreme court makes a dramatic pronouncement about the invalidity of state marriage laws, that it will inevitably sit in conflict between those who ascribe to the supreme court s edict and those who have a firmly held religious belief that marriage is between a man and a woman? woman? well, senator, these issues are being litigated, as you know, throughout the courts as people raise issues. i am limited with what i can say about them. i m aware there are cases i m not asking you to decide a case or predict how you would decide to, i m just asking isn t it apparent that when the supreme court decides that something that is not even in the constitution is a fundamental right, and no state can pass any law that conflicts with the supreme court s edict, particularly in an area w
take a listen. how do you think your money was spent? was it well-spent? by paying bills. that s how you spend money. either that or become a jewish husband. you spend a lot of money. there you have it. mr. adelson laughs off $70 million. after all forbes estimates his worth i believe at greater than $20 billion. but we also read in politico today that other romney donors and that s right. i think there is a mix there, and there are folks who believe that karl rove and that the koch brothers operation, americans for prosperity, did spend their money as effectively as they could given the circumstances, and then there are others who really do want answers and who are probably less inclined to give that amount of money again because they think along the lines of what michael was just explaining, that these television ads were really infective, that this money was ill-spent and could have been spent better. i think we could see two
find the contest to figure out where in the city it s even being held. politico.com says that the koch brothers operation has evolved into something more kin to a political party and that it is focused on power and extending their reach. many of the dozens of rich invitees are expected to write huge checks to poole cash and potentially boosting the koch s spending plan beyond their $395 million goal. also a chance for them to show off their robust machine. here in nerdland, we re not ones to suffer conspiracy theorys kindly. we ve taken great pains to debunk the idea of secret back room meetings of millionaires and billionaires plotting to take over the country, but then