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Whitehouse has not stopped taking dark money while crusading against it Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse/ Youtube Screenshot
March 10, 2021 2:00 PM
All three witnesses invited by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) to testify at a hearing on the destructive impact dark money has had on the Supreme Court have significant ties to liberal dark money groups.
Whitehouse is scheduled to preside over a Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday afternoon on What s Wrong with the Supreme Court: The Big Money Assault on Our Judiciary. Among the witnesses he called is Ben Jealous, who is currently the president of People for the American Way, a liberal group that does not disclose its donors. Jealous will be joined by Michael Klarman of Take Back the Court, a judicial advocacy group that does not identify its donors, and Lisa Graves of the Center for Media and Democracy, a liberal watchdog group that discloses some donors, but takes a significant portion of its fundi
7 Takeaways From Senate Hearing on Supreme Court and Dark Money
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., speaks Oct. 14 during the third day of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Photo: Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
Senators and a witness at a Senate hearing Wednesday afternoon called out three left-leaning dark money groups for decrying the existence of conservative dark money groups.
The term “dark money” generally applies to a political organization that doesn’t disclose its donors.
None of the three liberal nonprofits discloses all donors, The Washington Free Beacon reported, a stance that makes them dark money organizations.
A faint glimmer of hope for bipartisan reform emerged from Wednesday's Senate hearing on "dark money" at the U.S. Supreme Court, though Republicans strongly denied that spending by secretly funded groups has helped prompt recent conservative rulings as several of the day's witnesses suggested.
Conservative watchdog group Americans for Public Trust is attacking Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in a new six-figure ad buy for his alleged hypocrisy over his gripes about "dark money" affecting politics and the federal judiciary.
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