{"id":12075,"date":"2017-03-22T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T01:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12075"},"modified":"2017-03-22T18:23:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T01:23:54","slug":"how-citizens-united-gave-us-clarence-thomas-climate-change-denial-and-neil-gorsuch-bradcast-3222017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12075","title":{"rendered":"How ‘Citizens United’ Gave Us Clarence Thomas, Climate Change Denial and Neil Gorsuch: ‘BradCast’ 3\/22\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, with the consistent help of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), we connect some of the dots between the Citizens United<\/i> ruling, the GOP theft of the U.S. Supreme Court and the undermining of climate change legislation. Yes, it’s all of a piece, and it begins well before the fateful SCOTUS ruling in 2010. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>] <\/p>\n

Today we go back as far as 1991<\/a> when a newly formed rightwing non-profit group by the name of Citizens United spent $100,000 to make sure alleged sexual harasser Clarence Thomas would be confirmed as a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Twenty years later, in 2010’s ‘Citizens United v. FEC’ ruling<\/a>, Thomas then decided with the majority to help unleash a tsunami of undisclosed “dark money” into our political, electoral and judicial system (including more than half a million dollars to his wife’s new non-profit, in the two months following the case’s oral argument at the Court.)<\/p>\n

In 2014, Sen. Whitehouse cited that fateful decision<\/a> as the point in time when Republicans, who used to support action on climate change, immediately stopped doing so. And, this week, at the confirmation hearings for Judge Neil Gorsuch — Donald Trump’s nominee for the GOP’s stolen Supreme Court seat — Whitehouse confronted Gorsuch in a fascinating extended exchange, about dark money corruption in politics, including the $10 million spent<\/a> by undisclosed rightwingers backing Gorsuch’s confirmation<\/a>, and the $7 million the same shady groups<\/a> spent to block the confirmation of Barack Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n

All of that and more on today’s program, including Desi Doyen and the latest Green News Report<\/a> and the Colorado GOP’s former chairman-turned-talk show host who, one month before last November’s election, told listeners: “virtually every case of voter fraud I can remember in my lifetime was committed by Democrats.” He’s now been charged<\/a> absentee voter fraud…<\/p>\n

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