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2. Whitaker took wingnut welfare to lead fascist judicial organization
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 11:27 PM
Nov 2018
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/04/new-nonprofit-tied-to-stealthy-circle-of-dark-money-groups/

New nonprofit tied to stealthy circle of dark money groups

By Viveca Novak and Anna Massoglia
April 15, 2016

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Matthew Whitaker, a former U.S. Attorney, is executive director of FACT. (Photo: FactDC.org)

Leading the pushback from the outside against President Obama’s attempt to bring the Supreme Court back up to its full complement of nine justices, the Judicial Crisis Network claims to have spent $4 million on a TV, radio and digital campaign attacking nominee Merrick Garland and arguing that the next president should fill the vacancy.

Additional politically active, nondisclosing nonprofits, such as the Independent Women’s Forum, the Susan B. Anthony List and the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, have also made noise to try to

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