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Joinfortmill

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Tue Feb 22, 2022, 05:02 PM Feb 2022

Kennedy was the 'Lion of the Senate'. Whitehouse may be the 'Tiger of the Senate'.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/feb/22/the-scheme-senators-highlight-rightwing-influence-supreme-court

‘The Scheme’: a senator’s plan to highlight rightwing influence on the supreme court

For almost nine years the Democrat took to the Senate floor every week the chamber was in session to demand that attention be paid to the climate crisis.

But now he has another alarm to sound. “The Scheme” is a series about the plot by rightwing donor interests to capture the supreme court and achieve through the institution’s power what they cannot through other branches of government.

The thread running through Whitehouse’s spoken essays is that the current 6-3 conservative majority on the court is no accident but the product of special interests and dark money – hundreds of millions of dollars in anonymous hidden spending.

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Kennedy was the 'Lion of the Senate'. Whitehouse may be the 'Tiger of the Senate'. (Original Post) Joinfortmill Feb 2022 OP
Thanks for this info. MOMFUDSKI Feb 2022 #1
I loved how he highlighted this during Coney-Barrett's confirmation hearing. Native Feb 2022 #2
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