As Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump try to sell a “sham” FBI probe to the public in hopes of tempering impassioned protests of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault, corporate powers are covertly pouring millions of dollars into efforts to push through the corporate-friendly judge’s confirmation.
“The largest corporate lobbying groups and billionaires [are] working in concert with Republican operatives to elevate Kavanaugh to a lifetime posting atop the judiciary.”
—The Intercept
“Business groups with interests before the U.S. Supreme Court have orchestrated a multifaceted campaign” to bolster Kavanaugh’s reputation with the public and make it easier for senators to support him, The Intercept reports, “with the largest corporate lobbying groups and billionaires working in concert with Republican operatives to elevate Kavanaugh to a lifetime posting atop the judiciary.”
While news reports and organized demonstrations continue to capture the widespread outrage over the women’s allegations and GOP leaders’ resistance to fully investigating them, little attention has been paid in recent days to Kavanaugh’s notably pro-business, anti-regulation record from his 12 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit—a record that made him deeply unpopular even before the sexual assault allegations surfaced.
As key senators in both parties weigh whether they can use the “charade” of an FBI investigation as “political cover” to justify a vote favor of Kavanaugh to their alarmed constituents, major corporate powers and wealthy donors are, according to The Intercept, “using 501(c) nonprofit groups that do not require donor transparency to air upward of $15 million in reported advertising spending in order to convince the public to support Kavanaugh’s nomination.
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A notable portion of the ads are targeting fence-sitters that include: Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) as well as Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), and Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.).
As Open Secrets pointed out last week, the right-wing Judicial Crisis Network started spending on efforts to influence President Donald Trump’s selection of a replacement for former Justice Anthony Kennedy “long before Kavanaugh was a blip on the radar of most Americans,” but in the wake of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony about Kavanaugh alleged attempt to rape her, the group revealed Tuesday that it would spent at least $400,000 on a new ad.
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