ACS Research and the Post Exposé: Dark Money Reshaping Judiciary

ACS President Caroline Fredrickson, Lisa Graves, and Jamal Greene discuss the new exposé by The Washington Post, which documents a well-financed network of wealthy donors who install judges sympathetic to a far-right agenda. The Post’s reporting builds on research supported by ACS; contributing researchers and experts will discuss the implications of the far-right’s strategy on the courts and for future nominations fights, and how to defend our courts from attacks to core freedoms and principles.

Featuring:

Caroline Fredrickson, ACS President

Lisa Graves, co-founder, Documented Investigations

Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Resources on Dark Money

• Court Capture: The Right-Wing Takeover of the Judiciary
• The Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections by Caroline Fredrickson
• A Conservative Activist’s Behind-The-Scenes Campaign to Remake the Nation’s Courts by Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg
• ACS In Brief: Trump Continues to Reshape Judiciary at Breakneck Speed
• ACS Issue Brief: A Right-Wing Rout: What the “Roberts Five” Decisions Tell Us About the Integrity of Today’s Supreme Court by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse