Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) used a third of his time allotted for questioning Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday to instead speak about “dark money” groups influencing Supreme Court nominations. Whitehouse spent more than ten minutes during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Jackson attempting to differentiate between “a dark money interest rooting for” a particular Supreme Court nominee and “right-wing dark money interests having a role in actually picking” nominees.........Dark money organizations predominately include 501(c) groups, which, as Open Secrets details, are not required to disclose their donors’ names or other sources of money...........“But there is a difference, I believe, between a dark money interest rooting for someone and right-wing dark money interests having a role in actually picking the last three Supreme Court justices."............
During his dark money presentation, Whitehouse did not mention Demand Justice, a Democrat-aligned dark money group with a projected multimillion-dollar budget in 2022. Demand Justice announced a $1 million ad campaign to promote Jackson immediately following her nomination. It had also previously included Jackson on its shortlist of desired justices, doing so as early as just prior to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death in September 2020, according to The 19th. Demand Justice also heavily lobbied for retiring Justice Stephen Breyer to step down.................To Read More.....
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