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Sheldon Whitehouse
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“when the EPA issued its first-ever plan to limit carbon emissions from power plants and five conservative justices (then including Justice Scalia) blocked the law while it was still under review in the lower courts, before it had even reached them. This was a procedural eyebrow-raiser of a ruling without precedent in U.S. history, one that I reckon saved the fossil fuel industry $100 billion per year (assuming it would have cost them about one-sixth of their annual federal pollution subsidy).3”
― The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
― The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
“James Madison is said to have warned that “the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A republic can not stand upon bayonets, and when that day comes, when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nation to the changed conditions.”
― Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
― Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
“A single anonymous donor spent more than $17 million in both the Gorsuch and the Kavanaugh confirmation battles to secure the nominee’s ascension to the Court (and in a sign of how broken our disclosure system is, we will likely never know who the donor is or what business he or she had before the Court—nor do we yet know what money was spent on the Barrett confirmation).”
― The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
― The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
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