Man Who Helped Overturn Roe Comes to Wisconsin Supreme Court Race, Which Will Decide Abortion Rights
You probably don’t know the name Leonard Leo, but if you live in Wisconsin and you care about reproductive freedom, voting rights, workers’ rights, or a host of other issues that can affect your daily life, you should.
There’s arguably no one more responsible for the repeal of Roe v. Wade than Leo, a Virginia-based attorney and the longtime executive vice president of The Federalist Society, the ultra-conservative legal organization that helped engineer the right-wing takeover of the US Supreme Court.
The Federalist Society counts all six Republican Supreme Court judges as current or former members. Leo, an extreme, anti-abortion conservative served as Donald Trump’s “judge whisperer,” ensuring the former president appointed judges to the court who would advance conservative priorities, including stripping the constitutional right to abortion from tens of millions of Americans.
Now, Leo is turning his attention to Wisconsin, where control of the state Supreme Court is up for grabs on April 4. In February, Leo donated $20,000, the maximum amount allowable by law, to right-wing candidate Dan Kelly, who previously served as the president of the Milwaukee Lawyer’s Chapter of the Federalist Society.
Leo exited his full-time role at the society in 2020 and now runs a network of shady, “dark money” groups that are funded by anonymous wealthy donors. These groups—which have helped make Leo extraordinarily wealthy—have spent more than $500 million as they seek to overhaul every aspect of American society, from abortion to education to business, in order to make them radically conservative.
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