Dark Money Groups Are Pushing Disinformation to Downplay the Overturn of "Roe"

[Nevilledog]

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https://truthout.org/articles/dark-money-groups-are-pushing-disinformation-to-downplay-the-overturn-of-roe/


As underscored by Kansas voters’ resounding decision this week to reject right-wing efforts to strip abortion rights from their state constitution, the deadly overturn of Roe v. Wade is wildly unpopular among many voters across the country.

But the same right-wing groups that helped to capture the Supreme Court — backed by ultra-wealthy donors they keep secret from the public — are working overtime to convince us that the overturn of Roe isn’t as dangerous as so many of us know it to be. Using dark money, they are mobilizing to reframe and cover over this anti-democratic, Christian-right coordinated effort to dominate our political system.

The far right faction of the Supreme Court that handed down the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe was put in place by a massive dark money web coordinated by Federalist Society fundraiser and right-wing Catholic lawyer Leonard Leo. His network has raised nearly $600 million in secret funding since 2014, not counting the past year. Leo himself hand-selected for Donald Trump three of the five justices that ruled to overturn Roe, and worked to get the others installed on the court. All the while, his affiliated dark money groups worked intensively to push the Trump nominees onto the bench, despite widespread and deep concerns about their fitness to be judges.

Leo predicted the success of his agenda in a speech to funders of the secretive Christian-right Council for National Policy in reversing precedents and turning back Americans’ rights to the pre-New Deal/robber baron era. He bragged that “no one in this room has probably experienced the kind of transformation that I think we are beginning to see” in rulings by the court.

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Roe your vote up and down the ballot, or even worse is coming ...

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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2. Well done! Bravo!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Thank you ...

Maybe we can make it an earworm. Every time somebody hears "republican" or "election", that runs through their mind.