Conservative-Infrastructure

Federalist Society Organizational Profile: Judicial Pipeline and Conservative Legal Movement Infrastructure

| Importance: 9/10

Comprehensive organizational analysis reveals the Federalist Society as the most successful judicial capture mechanism in American history, systematically placing conservative judges throughout the federal judiciary through a three-division structure spanning law schools, practicing attorneys, and …

Federalist Society Leonard Leo Steven Calabresi David McIntosh Lee Liberman Otis +9 more organizational-profile judicial-capture dark-money legal-movement supreme-court +3 more
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Richard Mellon Scaife Becomes Heritage Foundation's Primary Donor

| Importance: 8/10

Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife emerges as the Heritage Foundation’s largest and most crucial donor, contributing $420,000 in 1976 alone - representing 42 percent of the foundation’s total $1 million annual budget. Scaife’s massive financial commitment transforms Heritage from a …

Richard Mellon Scaife Heritage Foundation Scaife Family Charitable Trust Joseph Coors Edwin Meese III billionaire-funding think-tank-expansion conservative-infrastructure political-influence narrative-control +2 more
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