I am here for the 15th time in my series of ``Scheme'' speeches to call attention to the rightwing donors' long-planned scheme to capture and control our Supreme Court. What I will talk about today is that scheme's donor-funded doctrine factory and a case in which the ``Court that dark money built'' could weaponize dangerous, concocted doctrines to power up polluters and threaten the basic function of government. Before I get into this, let me say that I detest and condemn violence or threatened violence against members of the Court, and I object even to protesters making a racket in Justices' neighborhoods. There is a lot to be angry about, but the solution is through democracy and laws, not violence and noise. The capture of the Court by secret and special interests is deadly serious under our laws, and we have to respond seriously under our laws. Neighborhood noise and violent threats don't help. Let's remember that all three Trump Supreme Court Justices were actually chosen and then campaigned for by a dark money donor apparatus. Remember, the whole point of the scheme is to capture the Court so it will deliver big wins for the big rightwing donors, no matter how unpopular or radical those wins are. Remember that the donor elite behind the scheme spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an apparatus to capture the courts. It plotted for decades to seize this power and set up a system to get its hand-picked, extremist nominees onto the Bench.…
On the recordJune 14, 2022
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