February 15, 2021 - 2:41pm
American Juris Link, a new right-wing legal center with close ties to the State Policy Network, is actively working to track and support right-wing legal challenges to upend COVID-19 health restrictions, fight workers rights to unionize, and coordinate legal strategies and amici.
Originally registered as an independent nonprofit under the name Litigators for Liberty in late 2019, American Juris Link (AJL) was incubated by the State Policy Network (SPN) based on extensive strategic planning and input from leading litigators and philanthropists, according to a job listing with the right-wing head-hunting firm Talent Market.
In an SPN webinar titled, Protecting American Freedom Through Strategic Litigation, AJL s founder and president Carrie Ann Donnell describes AJL as basically like the SPN for litigators. SPN is a web of right-wing think tanks and tax-exempt organizations in 50 states, Washington, D.C., Canada, and the United Kingdom.
February 11, 2021 - 9:50am
At 85, the most influential Republican political donor in modern U.S. history says he has some regrets. According to soft-ball corporate media interviews and a new book he s written, billionaire industrialist Charles Koch wishes that his more than five decades of organizing and funding far-right, partisan politicians, advocacy groups, and academia had slightly less partisan results.
Koch s latest media makeover strains credulity. The man spent his entire adult life, while helming one of the largest and dirtiest private companies in the nation, working to fundamentally alter society and move it towards his ideal: a libertarian utopia with low taxes, no unions, weak regulations, and unlimited corporate political spending.
January 7, 2021
A Sinclair report gave pro-Trump insurrectionists a pass by broadcasting a lie that far-left infiltrators attacked the Capitol.
The claim by James Rosen aired on at least 14 Sinclair-owned or -operated stations in at least 18 states.https://t.co/IRmJFMqVBM Media Matters (@mmfa) January 7, 2021
It’s not like these Q-anon cracker bozos are listening to NPR and just coming up with different conclusions than normal people.
They are living in a different world.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: As an investigative reporter, you’ve written a book that takes readers into the heart of the institutional network that connects the Religious Right to the NRA, the Federalist Society, right-wing media, and the Republican Party. It’s a wild ride. What got you started on the path that made it possible for you to write this book?
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WESTMINSTER â A group of Vermont parents is suing the state and three school districts, including Windham Northeast Supervisory Union, over âunequal access to education.â
According to the Liberty Justice Center, which is representing four families, including Brianna Schaefer, of Grafton, and Sara and Louis Vitale, of Athens, the stateâs educational tuition system âviolates the state constitution by allowing children residing in certain school districts to attend the school of their choice and denying the same right to others.â
The Liberty Justice Center, according to its website, has a team of lawyers who âfight to protect students, families, entrepreneurs and other Americans whose fundamental constitutional rights have been violated.â
Save Jersey’s 4
th annual Right Women to Watch list includes right-of-center and pro-freedom women who were nominated for fighting for a better New Jersey, being principled in their views, and leading in their communities. Many are visionaries upsetting the status quo and up-and-comers charting a new path. Some are powerful in the public eye, and others behind the scenes; but every woman on this list is empowering and lifting up other women in the ranks.
Celebrate them and thank them!
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Rosemary Becchi ran an impressive uphill campaign to unseat Congresswoman Sherrill in CD-11. As a national tax policy attorney and reformer – her expertise remains sorely needed in New Jersey. She is currently a Strategic Advisor and Counsel for Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, and Schreck.