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Sheldon Whitehouse

@SenWhitehouse

Sep 23, 2018 • 7 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

@SteveSchmidtSES

Like former McCain adviser @SteveSchmidtSES, I have a hard time believing Ed Whelan when he says he didn’t coordinate his crackpot “doppelganger” theory with #Kavanaugh, the @WhiteHouse, and @SenateGOP.

https://twitter.com/steveschmidtses/status/1042995734876831744?s=11

@FedSoc

Whelan has long been at the center of the @FedSoc’s secretive & powerful inner circle. He’s close friends with #Kavanaugh & has been scheming with Leonard Leo about how to salvage this fast-sinking nomination.
washingtonpost.com/politics/kavan…

They’ve all been pushing the insulting theory that Dr. Ford was just “mixed up,” and Whelan somehow got Ford’s name before it was ever published. washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/…

@politico

Don’t know who Leonard Leo is? @politico calls him the #3 person driving American politics. He’s EVP of @FedSoc. And like Whelan, he’s an old friend of #Kavanaugh.

@realDonaldTrump

Leo is the GOP’s #darkmoney judicial puppet master. He arranged a $1 million dark money donation to @realDonaldTrump’s inauguration. Now he’s orchestrated a multimillion dollar dark money campaign to secure #Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

@FedSoc

To illustrate the intense pressure big special interests put on Rs, here’s an email #Kavanaugh himself received when he was running nominations for Bush, in which Leo & the @FedSoc call for “bashed kneecaps & blood” after the defeat of one of their lower court nominees.

#SupremeCourt “crisis of legitimacy”? Roberts not giving the right wing wins over 90% of the time in 80 cases he has decided by partisan 5-4 majorities might be a good start. nytimes.com/2018/09/23/opi…

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Sheldon Whitehouse

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@SenWhitehouse

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Sheldon Whitehouse

@SenWhitehouse

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@weareoversight

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