Leo, known as the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, has served as a key player in the judiciary’s rightward shift. The leaked documents, obtained by Rolling Stone, expose CRC Advisors’ work with Charles Koch’s political network, a dark-money group challenging potential wealth tax legislation before the Supreme Court, and support for a book authored by Trump affiliates Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie.
CRC Advisors, under Leo’s leadership, has reportedly raked in over $100 million from his dark money network over the past decade. Leo, who had a hand in selecting three of the Supreme Court’s six conservative justices, also chairs the Federalist Society and leads a dark-money network influencing judicial confirmations and court case deliberations.
The revelations come from resumes submitted to an online job bank hosted by the Conservative Partnership Institute, which unintentionally left the files unsecured. The resumes disclose that CRC’s clients include the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a group currently involved in a Supreme Court case that could redefine America’s tax code.
According to the CRC employee’s 2024 resume, Leo’s firm has also worked for the Koch network’s political advocacy arm, Americans for Prosperity. AFP’s super PAC spent more than $40 million supporting former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s failed Republican primary campaign against Trump this election cycle. AFP’s charitable arm has supported a case at the Supreme Court this term pushing justices to block the government from influencing content moderation by social media platforms.
The employee’s resume also boasts of CRC’s efforts to generate positive media coverage for “Trump: America First,” a book co-authored by Lewandowski and Bossie.
“It’s no surprise that Leonard Leo’s for-profit consulting firm — which has pulled down a whopping $100 million from Leo’s own nonprofit network — counts the Koch network and the group leading the Supreme Court billionaire bailout case as clients,” says Accountable.US president Caroline Ciccone. “We knew that Leo’s fingerprints were all over these far-right causes, but now it appears he’s directly profiting off of them, too. There’s no cause Leo won’t take up if it means he’ll profit.”
By reshaping the Supreme Court under Trump, Leo secured his largest-ever policy victory: the 2022 decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to ban abortion. That ruling, the culmination of decades of work by the conservative movement legal movement, put a spotlight on Leo and his operation as well as the Supreme Court.
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