"Leonard Leo had already run interference for one vacancy on the court filled by Donald Trump by conspiring with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to stall Barack Obama’s appointment in 2020 of Merrick Garland so the Republican Party could wait for the election of Trump to put another Federalist Society-approved hack, Neil Gorsuch, on the court."
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"Crow sat down with his personally-owned Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, and his Federalist Society master, Leonard Leo. Also there were lawyer Peter Rutledge, an attorney who had practiced over 30 times before the Supreme Court, and Mark Paoletta, a former chief counsel to Vice President Pence who has represented Justice Thomas’ wife, Ginni."
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"Leo and Rutledge had worked on the confirmation hearings for several Republican appointees to the court, including Thomas himself, making it appear that the cigar-smoke-filled outdoor gathering was to celebrate the appointments of Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and look forward to putting Christian Nationalist Amy Comey Barrett on the court with them."
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"Astoundingly, Crow was so proud of his own Little Apalachin Meeting that he wasn’t satisfied with memorializing it in a mere photograph. He commissioned an artist, Sharif Tarabay, to paint the scene of the now infamous mob-meet."
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