For over a year the American public has been deluged with sporadic negative coverage of the Supreme Court. The stories have ranged from retellings of decades old “ethics violations” that justices were cleared of long ago to stories about the flags being flown outside a justice’s house. ProPublica, the main purveyor of these repetitive and often conveniently timed stories even won a Pulitzer Prize for its work.
As many commentators have noted, new additions to the Supreme Court ethics saga often occurred in close proximity to important Supreme Court rulings, and the stories often featured comments from watchdog organizations that happened to be funded by donors who support packing the Supreme Court with liberal justices.
After the Court’s decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Trump v. United States, the smear campaign kicked into an even higher gear with Demand Justice, the Left’s preeminent court packing “dark money” advocacy group, announcing a $10 million campaign against the Supreme Court. Not only will the money go toward advocacy and ads calling for “ethics reforms” while undermining the Supreme Court, the group announced it will also use the money for “opposition research” on future potential Supreme Court nominees.
In this way, Demand Justice is truly returning to its roots.
What Is Demand Justice?
Demand Justice was created in 2018 as a fiscally sponsored project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the flagship “dark money” wing of the sprawling Arabella Advisors network, the “undisputed heavyweight champ” of left-wing “dark money.” Today, the Arabella network raises over $1 billion per year and uses a roster of nonprofits to funnel money from anonymous sources to left-wing activist groups, while creating a host of pop-up fiscally sponsored projects that are meant to look like real grassroots groups. Demand Justice was one of these pop-up groups.
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