On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss a new ProPublica investigation about how Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, build a powerful network that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
Leo advised Donald Trump on the nominations of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Before that, he helped pick or confirm the court’s three other conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
According to ProPublica, having reshaped the courts, Leo now has grander ambitions. A member of the Roman Catholic Church, he intends to wage a broader cultural war against a "progressive Ku Klux Klan" and "vile and immoral current-day barbarians, secularists and bigots" who demonize people of faith and move society further from its "natural order."
Guest:
Andy Kroll, investigative reporter for ProPublica and author of A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy
Web Resources:
ProPublica: We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court
