The Scheme

How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court

By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it influenced the Trump administration's appointment of over 230 "business-friendly" judges, including the last three justices of the United States Supreme Court.

Whitehouse traces the motive to control the court system back to Lewis Powell's notorious memo, which gave a road map for corporate influence to target the judiciary, and chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups and helped by the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. The scheme utilized the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, spent secret millions to support the nominees, orchestrated an "amicus brief" signaling apparatus, and propped up front-group litigants to "fast-lane" strategic test cases to the friendly justices.

Whitehouse finds the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations running operations that he likens to "covert ops," ultimately enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance the anti-government agenda of a small number of corporate oligarchs.

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Yikes!!! This Took Place! No Joke!

This book nails it, In my opinion, it follows the secret path (blueprint) taken to gaining the complete ownership of power and achieving this power completely (White House) is as old as the story of Cain and Able. The only difference today is the “Cains and Ables” are political enemies -vs- we are all in this together. I’m understanding more about the past 8 years, from its beginning to the present. So when Donald says something like and I quote him: “Well, yeah of course interfering with elections is okay. Everybody does it.” Yep, Donald said that and Putin heard it too. “…everything is really joke. Only power matters.” By Timothy Snyder. Sept. 27, 2019. MSNBC Rachel Maddie Show.

Disturbing

Sheldon Whitehouse clearly explains how the Supreme Court has been captured to serve the interests of right-wing billionaires and corporations.

Great info and great reading

Cogent argument backed by many facts regarding the capture of the Supreme Court by right wing special interests. Excellent reading brought more interest and emphasis on important points.

SCOTUS is captured

Dark $ changes everything. Reading Whitehouse's latest offers answers to the questions of who, why, when, where, and how. Well documented premises lead to valid conclusions by way of commanding syllogistic logic. An important title that is highly recommended.

The Best, Most Depressing Warning

WELL researched. Well documented. Sources well cited. Well organized. Well written. And MOST of all, depressing.

Thank you, Senator Whitehouse, along with your staff, for this important piece of work. Now if we all will just hear....

How Our Nations SCOTUS Is Influenced by Dark Money

An eye opening book about how Dark Money, or anonymous political donations, are funneled through non-profit groups in order to influence elections, especially as it relates to gaining control of the SCOTUS.

A must listen! Understanding our responsibility to ensure separation of 3 entities of government.

Enlightening, scary, motivating, how important our vote to assure our democracy. How fragile is our freedom???

Terrifying

This is an insightful, crucial, and revealing story. I'm not an attorney. Nowhere near. But Americans need to wake up in order to restore the entire court system including the Supreme Court!

Outstanding

Very informative & well worth reading for those who care about the direction of the country. As the USSC goes, so goes the USA.

Very high impact

Very important explanation of how right wing billionaires have captured the Supreme Court majority, who are now undoing 60 years of freedoms and handing the country to a tiny minority of elites who care only about going from highly privileged to answerable to no one.