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The Supreme Court’s decision in the 2010 Citizens United case transformed the world of politics. It loosened restrictions on campaign spending and unleashed a flow of anonymous donor money to nonprofit groups run by political activists.

In the months before the ruling dropped in January of that year, a group of conservative activists came together to create just such an organization. Its mission would be to, at the time, block then-President Barack Obama’s pet initiatives.

The activists included Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo and his ideological soulmate, a hard-edged activist named Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

“Ginni really wanted to build an organization and be a movement leader,” said a person familiar with her thinking at that time. “Leonard [Leo] was going to be the conduit of that.”

She also had a rich backer: Harlan Crow, the manufacturing billionaire who had helped Thomas and her husband in many ways, from funding luxury vacations to picking up tuition payments for their great-nephew.

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[–] deconstruct@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For many, the first time the heard of Ginni Thomas was in connection with Jan6. But her efforts to subvert democracy go back much further.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] socialjeffwarrior@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Cannot understand normal things

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The tiniest of consolations, perhaps, is that these people failed in their signature goal, the overturning of Obamacare. They came very close multiple times, but couldn't manage it.

It's crazy how opposition to universal healthcare served as the central organising principle for the US conservative movement for an entire decade.