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“Tom Carter has been the source of a wealth of material & insight [on Leonard Leo]” Gareth Gore, Opus

“Much of what we know about [Leonard] Leo is through the work of Tom Carter, who has tirelessly sought to raise the alarm” Lisa Graves, Without Precedent
If you pay attention to DC legal punditry and the Leonard Leo judiciary.

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SCOTUSblog Falls Into the MAGA Orbit - Legal Planet
Danger signs are appearing that SCOTUSblog is falling into the MAGA orbit. Invest in real journalism to stop the bleeding.
legal-planet.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
A couple of months ago, I noticed that the Wapo editorial board member’s names were no longer public.

I emailed a senior Wapo editor and asked who exactly was writing this dribble. To my surprise, he emailed back and told me the names were secret.

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The Washington Post Editorial Board Is Spectacularly Awful at Legal Analysis
Since Bezos overhauled the board earlier this year, it has been very good at cranking out billionaire-friendly propaganda. It is quite bad at everything else.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Catholic MAGA FOX news, otherwise called EWTN, has a poll out.

EWTN reporters grow hair on their palms.

www.ncregister.com/news/catholi...
Catholic Voters Still Back Trump, EWTN News/RealClear Poll Finds
ANALYSIS: The EWTN News RealClear Opinion Research Poll shows most Catholic voters still support President Trump and key policies such as mass deportations, even as inflation emerges as a potential wa...
www.ncregister.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Watching legal pundits argue or debate what the Leo Supreme Court is doing makes me think they are today’s unserious theologians arguing over how many angels fit on the head of pin.

But they do say DC is Hollywood for ugly people.

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Law School is for Boring, Ugly, Serious People
NLG Seattle University Chapter held DisOrientation on February 12, 2025. This is the speech I gave.<br><br>"Law school is designed to make you a bad a
papers.ssrn.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Despite all evidence to the contrary, I must have been a very good boy this year. A friend is downsizing and no longer has room. He gifted me. 🙀 Getting on my Dickey Betts this Christmas.
December 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you think Im just some cranky old guy bitching and moaning about NYT and its constant MAGA fluffing, here is Global Extremism’s take.

No one has more experience or expertise in following the far right than

@heidibeirich.bsky.social

click on hyperlinks!

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Mainstream Media Aids Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes’ Growing Popularity
Piers Morgan’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes became another boost for the Groyper movement, offering a committed Holocaust denier uncritical mainstream exposure. As Fuentes turns these appearan...
globalextremism.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Carl Hulse, NYT bureau chief in DC w a stable of reporters, has never assigned a story on NYT Leonard Leo, despite saying publicly that DC is run by a Catholic mafia. Leo’s name barely appears in his best selling book on Kavanaugh being placed on Supreme Court.
December 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Robert Draper is the MAGA embed at NYT. Rather than “reporting” on MAGA, he helps NYT readers understand how and why these cuddly neo Nazis are misunderstood. His valentines on Charlie & Erika Kirk, Fuentes, MTG etc are fluffy MAGA PR by design.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/p...
The Cracking of the Trump Coalition
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Gehring saves his most scathing critiques for (Leonard) Leo, Tim Busch, Charles Koch and the members of the American hierarchy who have bought into their worldview and their rhetoric.

www.americamagazine.org/books/2025/1...
Review: The U.S. church today—and tomorrow
'Reclaiming American Catholicism,' coming in at nearly 400 pages, is a comprehensive and meticulous synopsis of many of the ills that are plaguing the church in the United States.
www.americamagazine.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Aquinas is the cool kid we all need to be - according to Leonard Leo Catholic Christofascists. Who knew?

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December 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Tom Carter
“Protests in Honduras as president calls for election to be annulled amid further results delay” 12/10/25 (Meanwhile, Trump pardoned the former Honduran president who, per the DOJ, allegedly bribed election officials to rig prior elections, including by shutting down an election computer system) 1/
Protests in Honduras as president calls for election to be annulled amid further results delay
TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 10 - Election results in Honduras had not been updated for over 24 hours on Wednesday as protests broke out in the capital after calls for the vote to be annulled by the president, al...
www.straitstimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Read entire thread. @jennycohn.bsky.social

It is lengthy and complicated, but absolutely must reading.
The “same legal apparatus that set up & represented [a proposed online Catholic charter school]…is now organizing a Jewish charter school in OK,” an apparent “attempt to push the same issue—this time w/ a majority of conservatives ready to strike down religious public funding bans...” 12/11/25 … 1/
The Supreme Court Will Get Another Shot at Church-State Separation
A split decision prevented the religious right from creating the first public-funded religious school in Oklahoma—but they’re back to try it again.
newrepublic.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reposted by Tom Carter
They’ve got some far right evangelical and Jewish support as well. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
👀 The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has just published an article by A3P Sr. Counsel Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to the states & requires a separation of church & state. 1/
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Heritage Foundation drops Project 2026
and it says Self governance for all, federal elections (not state), total abortion ban in all cases in every state& implementation of Christian nationalist ideology. Anyone who goes against this will be labeled a foreign agent
www.newsweek.com/project-2026...
Heritage Foundation 2025-2026 priorities: Read in full
The Heritage Foundation continues to advocate for limited government, border security and tough immigration laws.
www.newsweek.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Welp - there goes my chance at becoming a Supreme…

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Even George W. Bush’s Torture Guy Thinks Trump Is Crossing the Line
John Yoo says the Trump’s “drug boat” strikes are clearly illegal.
newrepublic.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Read your Aquinas. There is no separation of church and state in Post Liberal Catholic Integralism. Democracy is a 250 year old heresy to be corrected. Make America a Papal State Again.

@newrepublic.com

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December 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Is there a billionaire anywgere on the plant more involved in US politics than Leonard Leo?

Last time Wapo actually dod some reporting on Leo was in 2019.

Wapo still ignoring Leonard Leo. What does Leo have on Bezos?

www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
MSN
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December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM