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</b></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: ProximaNova-Regular; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px 60px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Former Utah Solicitor General <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-green-33418440" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Tyler Green</a></span></span> is joining the Washington-area litigation boutique Consovoy McCarthy, the firm widely known for its advocacy for President Donald Trump in his effort to stop U.S. congressional investigators and New York prosecutors from obtaining his financial records.</span></p><p><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: ProximaNova-Regular; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px 60px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Green, a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas during the 2009-10 term, is a partner in the now 12-lawyer firm that was <b>started in 2014 by William Consovoy and Thomas McCarthy, formerly classmates at George Mason University School of Law</b>. Green will be based in Salt Lake City.</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 22</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/22/politics/dark-money-donation-conservative-group-invs/">https://www.cnn.com/<b>2022/08/</b>22/politics/dark-money-donation-conservative-group-invs/</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cnn</font></p><div class="elleafmedia elleafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><p class="zn-bodyparagraph speakable" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_22830E65-1ECF-8872-6BEF-C5DC9CFC0E4D" data-act-id="paragraph_0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A new group led by a prominent conservative lawyer has received $1.6 billion from one donor -- the largest single contribution to a politically focused nonprofit that's ever been made public, and a fortune that could be used to fuel right-wing interests.</font></p></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_E936D228-5B02-D3DD-08E3-C5DC9CFFA48E" data-act-id="paragraph_1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The nonprofit, Marble Freedom Trust, received the contribution in the form of stock and then funneled more than $200 million to other conservative organizations last year, a tax form CNN obtained from the IRS shows.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_8C992A0D-A1FF-A70F-AE3B-C5DC9D015F52" data-act-id="paragraph_2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marble Freedom is led by Leonard Leo, the co-chairman of the conservative Federalist Society, who advised <a href="https://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/president-donald-trump-45" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">former President Donald Trump</a> on his Supreme Court picks and runs a sprawling network of other right-wing nonprofits that don't disclose their donors, which are often referred to as dark money groups.</font></div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-4 cn-zoneAdContainer" data-layout="list-hierarchical-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_CDF27BA3-96CE-7BD2-477F-C62EF3C437ED" data-act-id="paragraph_3" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A CNN review of financial documents connected the donation to Barre Seid, a low-profile, 90-year-old Chicago electronics company executive and philanthropist who has previously been tied to smaller anonymous contributions to other right-wing groups. The New York Times, which first <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/republican-dark-money.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">reported</a> the contribution on Monday, also identified Seid as the donor.</font></div><div class="ad ad--epic ad--tablet" data-ad-text="show" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; clear: both;"><div data-ad-id="ad_nat_btf_01" data-ad-position="tablet" data-ad-refresh="default" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="ad_nat_btf_01" class="ad-ad_nat_btf_01 ad-refresh-default adfuel-rendered" data-google-query-id="CJKH2_WBp_oCFQQrwQod6BcP7A" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>the massive donation instantly makes the Utah-based group one of the most well-funded organizations bankrolling conservative causes in the US -- a staggering distinction for a group with zero public profile or even a website. In comparison, the single contribution is more than double the <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00580100/?cycle=2020" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">total amount raised</a> by Trump's presidential campaign committee during the entire 2020 election cycle. </b></font></div></div></div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-9 cn-zoneAdContainer" data-layout="list-hierarchical-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><div class="zn-bodyread-all" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_9DD4C3EA-5788-8DB6-036A-C5DC9D0C3878" data-act-id="paragraph_5" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Maguire, the research director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, called the donation "stupefying," and "by far" the largest known contribution to a dark money political group. </font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_A7E20756-1A6D-226D-C10A-C5DC9D0D2A31" data-act-id="paragraph_6" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I've never seen a group of this magnitude before," Maguire said. "This is the kind of money that can help these political operatives and their allies start to move the needle on issues like reshaping the federal judiciary, making it more difficult to vote, a state-by-state campaign to remake election laws and lay the groundwork for undermining future elections."</font></div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-13 cn-zoneAdContainer" data-layout="list-hierarchical-xs" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_8424DD20-5CF7-BBF9-E11C-C5DEA4F86F68" data-act-id="paragraph_7" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leo said in a statement that "it's high time for the conservative movement to be among the ranks of George Soros, Hansjörg Wyss, Arabella Advisors and other left-wing philanthropists, going toe-to-toe in the fight to defend our Constitution and its ideals" -- referring to two liberal-leaning billionaires and a consulting firm that manages several smaller dark money groups on the left.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_2225296A-E0D5-E464-C3EF-C5DC9D111547" data-act-id="paragraph_8" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seid did not respond to requests for comment left on phone numbers listed for him and his longtime assistant.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_C59D321E-643A-C694-0823-C5E5FEFCBB4B" data-act-id="paragraph_9" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px 0px -5px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 500; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 40px; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Huge anonymous donation has ties to Chicago executive </font></h3></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_6FDCA613-7633-06F4-7122-C5DC9D1AAEC6" data-act-id="paragraph_10" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Dark money" generally refers to nonprofits that get involved in politics but do not disclose their donors, a practice that significantly ramped up after the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010. <b>Many <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/politics/dark-money-democrats-joe-biden/index.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">dark money groups</a>, like Marble Freedom, are 501(c)4 organizations -- nonprofits that are <a href="https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/other-non-profits/social-welfare-organizations" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">allowed</a> to participate in politics as long as it is not their primary activity. </b></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_A6B88769-01F7-3A21-C0CA-C5DC9D1D6B90" data-act-id="paragraph_11" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Groups on both sides of the political spectrum have increasingly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/us/politics/democrats-dark-money-donors.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">turned to dark money</a> in recent years to sway voters or push agendas without revealing their ultra-wealthy benefactors -- but the Marble Freedom donation dramatically eclipses even the largest of the previously known groups. </font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_2DD4748F-E2D0-8622-802A-C5DC9D1F93B0" data-act-id="paragraph_12" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marble Freedom's tax return covers its initial year of existence between May 2020 and April 2021. The gift of just over $1.6 billion came in the <b>form of 100% of the stock of a privately held company, which Marble Freedom then sold to another company, according to the tax form. </b></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_9AADF349-8F3E-27B3-1CAE-C5DC9D216EEE" data-act-id="paragraph_13" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The arrangement likely saved Seid a large amount of money in taxes,</b> according to Marcus Owens, an attorney and former director of the IRS division on tax-exempt organizations, who reviewed the form for CNN. If Seid had personally sold the stock in the company, he would likely have had to pay capital gains tax on the proceeds of the sale. By donating the stock to Marble Freedom, he avoided having to pay that tax, and the nonprofit would be exempt from paying it.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_443B1984-8E3A-2C11-C44C-C5DC9D2911F2" data-act-id="paragraph_14" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marble Freedom wrote that it was withholding information about which company was donated and who it sold to because "disclosing it would effectively disclose the identity of its donors." </font></div><div class="elembedded elembedded--standard" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 637.6px; z-index: 0;"><div class="elstoryelement--standard elarticle--embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-right: 30px; clear: both; cursor: default; margin-bottom: 30px; width: 300px; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="elarticle--teaseimage" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div class="mediacaption elstoryelementtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 14px 10px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; position: relative; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-left-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial;"><span class="elstoryelementheader" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.5; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/19/politics/supreme-court-georgia-election-rules/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Supreme Court issues rare emergency order favoring voters challenging elections rules</font></a></span></div></div></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_C749F43E-3B5C-19CF-8EAD-C5E90B0DF97B" data-act-id="paragraph_15" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But details about the donation connect it to the sale of the Chicago-based electrical device firm Tripp Lite, whose longtime chairman was Seid. </font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_42BE0324-7C32-CE83-AFA9-C5DC9D2E79B4" data-act-id="paragraph_16" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After receiving the donated stock, Marble Freedom sold the company on March 17, 2021, according to the tax form. The same day, according to Securities and Exchange Commission <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1551182/000115752321000971/a52470260ex99.htm" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">documents</a>, the <b>American-Irish power company Eaton acquired Tripp Lite for $1.65 billion. </b></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_295FC7E6-8A61-0A51-4EFC-C5DC9D3104B2" data-act-id="paragraph_17" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the sale, "the sole shareholder of Tripp Lite" was represented by New York law firm <b>Sullivan & Cromwell,</b> Law360 <a href="https://www.law360.com/articles/1349940/eaton-getting-power-device-maker-tripp-lite-for-1-65b" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">reported</a> at the time. Less than two weeks later, Marble Freedom paid Sullivan & Cromwell $940,000 in legal fees, the tax form shows. A spokesperson for Eaton said the company would not provide more details about the acquisition, and several lawyers involved in the transaction did not respond to requests for comment.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_B01AB461-7C1D-CC7A-3EDB-C5DC9D392166" data-act-id="paragraph_18" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seid <a href="https://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8757579.htm" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">served</a> as chairman and CEO and listed himself as the "owner" of Tripp Lite in federal campaign donation <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?28991399445" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">records</a> from 2008. He worked at the company, which produces power strips, surge protectors and other devices, for more than 50 years, according to a Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TrippLiteCanada/posts/many-congratulations-to-our-ceo-barre-seid-for-56-successful-years-with-tripp-li/1086168214750782/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">post</a> from Tripp Lite. He grew up in Chicago, the son of immigrants from Russia, according to Census records, and graduated from the University of Chicago.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_7723A3F9-8235-E3E7-A59B-C5DC9D3C56FB" data-act-id="paragraph_19" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Seid has previously had a history of donating anonymously to conservative political groups and causes. An internal 2015 <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Graves%20QFR's%20Final.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">document</a> from the <b>Bradley Foundation,</b> a right-wing nonprofit, stated that the conservative think tank Foundation for Government Accountability had received support from "Barre Seid (anonymously)." The document was part of a trove of records from Bradley that was <a href="https://projects.jsonline.com/news/2017/5/5/hacked-records-show-bradley-foundation-taking-wisconsin-model-national.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">hacked</a> and released, and was later <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Graves%20QFR's%20Final.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">included</a> as an exhibit in Senate testimony. </font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_E6F9F646-27F7-8338-FEBA-C5E499F1FCE9" data-act-id="paragraph_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In addition, Salon <a href="https://www.salon.com/2010/11/16/clarion_fund_obsession_dvds/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">reported</a> in 2010 that "Barry Seid" was listed in tax documents as the identity of an anonymous donor who gave nearly $17 million to a group that produced an anti-Islam documentary and sent DVDs of the movie to millions of households during the 2008 election</span><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">. An assistant for Seid told Salon that he did not contribute to the organization, although she didn't address whether he made the donation by routing it through another group. </span></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_694038CD-784C-F33D-087A-C5DC9D43BDA4" data-act-id="paragraph_21" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">And publicly released emails suggest that Seid may also be the anonymous donor who pledged $20 million over five years to George Mason University's law school in order to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/06/politics/antonin-scalia-law-school-dedication/index.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">rename</a> it for former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia in 2016.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> The emails were obtained through a public records request and </span><a href="https://medium.com/@acaalim/new-evidence-suggests-chicago-billionaire-closely-allied-with-the-koch-brothers-and-implicated-2abc9bcbd102" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">published</a><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> by George Mason Law alum Allison Pienta in 2019. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The school has refused to identify the donor but has said that Leo <a href="https://www.gmu.edu/news/2016-03/mason-receives-30-million-gifts-renames-law-school-after-justice-antonin-scalia" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">coordinated</a> the gift.</span></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_BE8DF404-CA4E-524E-4873-C5DC9D46EAB9" data-act-id="paragraph_22" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seid and his wife make public donations through another nonprofit, the Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation, which mostly funds Chicago-based cultural organizations and universities but has given to conservative and libertarian groups such as the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute. Seid also <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-08-02-9408020196-story.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">donated</a> to various political campaigns in Illinois and elsewhere in the 1990s and 2000s. </font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_1058A97A-7B6C-5245-E891-C5E5CA5A31F4" data-act-id="paragraph_23" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px 0px -5px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 500; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 40px; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Big spending and opaque groups</font></h3></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_D676F285-2455-AFF2-C2F8-C5E4E365984B" data-act-id="paragraph_24" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even in its infancy, Marble Freedom Trust has already funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to other dark money groups.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_9C6B200A-D5F2-814E-1F10-C5E4EDF7E47F" data-act-id="paragraph_25" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leo, Marble Freedom's chairman and trustee, is one of the most influential figures in the world of conservative dark money. A longtime executive at the Federalist Society, a national network of right-leaning lawyers, Leo has led or served on the board of more than a dozen different nonprofits. Several of his groups have been associated with political campaigns promoting conservative Supreme Court nominees, operating in <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/02/dark-money-group-led-by-trump-judicial-adviser-scotus-picks/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">complex networks</a> of spending.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_0A24043F-C93D-C86C-0D40-C5DC9D5EC25B" data-act-id="paragraph_26" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The new $1.6 billion donation "solidifies Leo as just an absolute gravitational force within the conservative political and legal world," Maguire said. "He was already the man behind the scenes raising money for reshaping the American judiciary, and this amount of money just takes it to a stratospheric level."</font></div><div class="elembedded elembedded--standard" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 637.6px; z-index: 0;"><div class="elstoryelement--standard elarticle--embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-right: 30px; clear: both; cursor: default; margin-bottom: 30px; width: 300px; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="elarticle--teaseimage" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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While politics can't be its primary focus, it can use at least some of its huge resources to influence this year's midterms or future elections.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_AB1A8D76-50A2-50EE-D16B-C5DC9D7170B7" data-act-id="paragraph_29" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is such a significant amount that it would be a game-changer if they do decide to devote even a portion of that to election-related spending," said Anna Massoglia, the Editorial and Investigations Manager at OpenSecrets, a group that researches campaign finance.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_80A8E086-C247-2EF4-0CA8-C5DC9D76DF2D" data-act-id="paragraph_30" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marble Freedom reported making four donations to other nonprofits -- transactions that appear to have taken place between the sale of the stock in mid-March 2021 and the end of April 2021. </font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_D52E71A2-308E-D038-01BD-C5E52ED4D5B2" data-act-id="paragraph_31" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The largest contribution was a $153 million gift to the Rule of Law Trust, a dark money nonprofit led by Leo that has funded other conservative organizations.</b> The group's tax returns show it received just under $80 million in donations in <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/02/dark-money-group-led-by-trump-judicial-adviser-scotus-picks/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">2018</a> and no contributions in <a href="https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/831047727_201912_990O_2021121719343097.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">2019</a> or <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21165173/rule-of-law-trust-2020-990.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">2020</a>, so the gift from Marble Freedom represents a massive funding boost for the organization. </font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_9613FF61-AF25-A669-4D27-C5DC9D7F4D0E" data-act-id="paragraph_32" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Marble Freedom contributed $41.1 million to Donors Trust,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> a nonprofit that distributes money to conservative and libertarian groups in addition to nonpolitical organizations. The group is a donor-advised fund, which means its contributors can recommend where their donations to the fund are sent. </span></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_845A527D-4C11-B247-25F0-C5E55258F2AF" data-act-id="paragraph_33" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In the past, Donors Trust has funneled millions of dollars to groups that have amplified false claims about election fraud and <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/21/judicial-crisis-network-trump-supreme-court-pick-419460" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">advocated</a> for more restrictive voting rules. The group has previously <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gop-dark-money-group-donors-trust-giving-big-to-vdare-white-supremacists" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">said</a> that its donations are intended to "serve the public good."</b></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_B6F96B28-51DC-A824-A0EA-C5DC9D906A8C" data-act-id="paragraph_34" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Marble Freedom also donated $16.5 million to The Concord Fund, a nonprofit that has advocated for conservative nominees to the Supreme Court and other judgeships</b> and is <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/05/conservative-dark-money-network-voting-restrict/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">associated</a> with a group that has pushed restrictive voting laws. Concord, which was previously known as the Judicial Crisis Network, raised $20.4 million from July 2019 to June 2020, according to its most recent <a href="https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/202303252_202006_990O_2022052420132870.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">tax return</a>. </font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_515A1D15-7FB8-FB8E-DA50-C5DC9D966DC4" data-act-id="paragraph_35" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">In addition to the three groups with political connections, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Marble Freedom gave $18 million to Schwab Charitable Fund, another donor-advised fund.</span></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_EDB1B9C1-36E2-8B2A-F85A-C5DC9D9CC13B" data-act-id="paragraph_36" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> Marble Freedom lists two other board members in addition to Leo, both of whom are unpaid.</span><b style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> One is <a href="https://fedsoc.org/contributors/tyler-green" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Tyler Green</a>, the former solicitor general of Utah, who has represented the Republican National Committee</b><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> and other GOP groups in multiple voting-related lawsuits in recent years. Green, who is listed as Marble Freedom's administrative trustee, is</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> also a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> The trust's address is listed as a home in North Salt Lake, Utah, that Green owns. </span></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_3B6E6EAF-343C-5E8A-08C2-C5DC9DA23265" data-act-id="paragraph_37" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The board's third member is Jonathan Bunch, a former Federalist Society vice president </b>who has been involved with various groups led by Leo. Bunch is listed as Marble Freedom's successor trustee. Green and Bunch did not respond to requests for comment. </font></div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-47 cn-zoneAdContainer" data-layout="list-hierarchical-xs" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_0CF4F3D0-D5DC-D9CD-D401-C5E5975222F6" data-act-id="paragraph_38" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At the end of April 2021, Marble Freedom had more than $1.4 billion in assets -</b>- positioning it to play a major role in conservative causes potentially for years to come. </font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_5C5C99E3-1478-3776-80EF-C5DC9DB4CCB8" data-act-id="paragraph_39" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This group is emblematic of the corrosion and the breakdown of our campaign finance system," Maguire said -- and how it gives "wealthy donors, whether they be corporations or individuals, access and influence over the system far greater than any regular American can ever imagine."</font></div></ul></ul></div><p class="zn-bodyparagraph zn-bodyfooter" data-act-id="paragraph_40" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.375;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN's Yahya Abou-Ghazala contributed to this report.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">off bs cmcc</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"> Green helps clients litigate constitutional, statutory, and regulatory issues in courts and agencies throughout the country. Before joining the firm, he served as the Solicitor General of the State of Utah for five years. In that role, he oversaw all civil and criminal appellate matters in which the State of Utah or its officers or agencies were a party. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While serving as solicitor general, he successfully argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and the Utah Supreme Court. He also led the Utah Attorney General office’s multistate litigation efforts, both challenging and defending regulatory actions by the federal government and other states. And he oversaw the division of the Utah Attorney General’s office responsible for <b>defending cases challenging the constitutionality of state law.</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Before his service to the State of Utah, Mr. Green was <b>Deputy Chief Counsel for Litigation at the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center.</b> He began his career at <b>Gibson, Dunn</b> & Crutcher LLP’s Washington, D.C. office, where he litigated a variety of appellate and trial-court cases.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Mr. Green served as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas at the U.S. Supreme Court, to Judge Michael McConnell at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and to Judge Paul Cassell at the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah</b>. 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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No. 17-130</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In The</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Supreme Court of the United States</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------------------- ---------------------------------</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">RAYMOND J. LUCIA AND</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">RAYMOND J. LUCIA COMPANIES, INC.,</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Petitioners,</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">v.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION,</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Respondent.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------------------- ---------------------------------</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Writ Of Certiorari To The</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">United States Court Of Appeals</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For The District Of Columbia Circuit</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">--------------------------------- ---------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE STATES OF UTAH,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ALABAMA, ARKANSAS, INDIANA, KANSAS,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">LOUISIANA, MICHIGAN, MISSOURI,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">NEBRASKA, OKLAHOMA, RHODE ISLAND,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">SOUTH CAROLINA, TEXAS, WISCONSIN, AND</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">WYOMING SUPPORTING PETITIONERS</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------------------- ---------------------------------</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SEAN D. REYES</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Utah Attorney General</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>TYLER R. GREEN</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Utah Solicitor General</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">STANFORD E. PURSER</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deputy Solicitor General</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Counsel for State of Utah</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">350 N. State Street, Suite 230</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2320</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Telephone: (801) 538-9600</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Email: tylergreen@agutah.gov</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Counsel of Record</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">thefed bs</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><b>Scalia’s Death Has Liberal Justices Smelling Blood</b></div><div>BY: GARRETT SNEDEKER</div><div>MARCH 08, 2016</div><div>They came hard and they came fast for Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller on the morning of March 2. During oral argument at the Supreme Court in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the Court’s four liberals bore down against Keller when discussing the need for additional health and safety regulations at Texas abortion clinics.</div><div>
</div><div>Without Justice Antonin Scalia there to interject with less hostile questions to reprieve Keller, the liberal justices pressed him to defend the state’s rationales for why it would treat abortion procedures with more caution than other less morally fraught procedures such as colonoscopies and liposuctions. With a laser-like focus, they premised their questions on an understanding of abortion as a fundamental right that the state could only restrict in the most limited ways, if at all.</div><div>
</div><div><b>They matched this bold reading of Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), </b>the case holding precedent, with an aggressive tenor in arguments. But it was not just in the oral argument in Hellerstedt. As another oral argument since Scalia’s passing made clear, the Court’s four liberals have now begun to assert their elevated numerical standing with more force and contempt for the weakened so-called conservative bloc.</div><div>
</div><div>Another Transformation in Oral Arguments</div><div>Perception of how a case may turn based on performance at oral argument is considered imprecise at best and grossly speculative at worst. Many factors ultimately influence justices on the fence in particular cases. The questions raised at oral argument are but some of the many that can be considered for final opinions and dissents.</div><div>
</div><div>Due to Scalia’s death, the finite balance between talkative conservative, swing, and liberal members has been upset.</div><div>Yet the forum does have value. Scalia famously transformed oral argument into a rapid-fire forum for testing the logical coherence of each side’s position. Once-sleepy affairs at the Court became comparatively vibrant exchanges between lawyers at the top of their craft. With the Court closely divided along ideological lines throughout Scalia’s tenure as a justice, oral argument became a much clearer public window into the fault lines potentially splitting the justices behind closed doors.</div><div>
</div><div>While only justices Scalia and Samuel Alito were ever consistently talkative at oral argument for conservative positions, all four of the liberal justices could be counted on to argue as a unified bloc. Due to Scalia’s death, the finite balance between talkative conservative, swing, and liberal members has been upset, and oral argument’s role is fundamentally different.</div><div>
</div><div>In the first couple of weeks since Scalia’s death, we are witnessing an unchecked and at times unhinged liberal quartet, whose positions will be less challenged because of Scalia’s absence. That is, unless Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas participate more openly and frequently in oral argument.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Justices Break Out Into Contempt</b></div><div>In Utah v. Strieff, argued February 22 and one of the first oral arguments since Scalia’s death, the ideologically split justices displayed notable hostility toward one another. The case involves a question of procedure when a police officer has been tipped off to a potential crime and arrives on the scene.</div><div>
</div><div>Instead of correcting the analogy and seeing her colleague’s concerns in the best possible light, Sotomayor turned passive-aggressive on her colleague.</div><div>Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Alito engaged in a back and forth over the “exclusionary rule,” whether evidence becomes tainted when it is illegally collected. Since the 1960s, liberal justices have hewed to the notion that without the rule, police officers would be encouraged to run warrants on everyone they stop, have a greater chance at successfully detaining these people, and then be able to search them. Conservative justices have tended to scoff at the notion that police can or would be able to engage in this behavior broadly.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The exclusionary rule has been debated for many years and in many cases, but Strieff was the first without Scalia, a noted skeptic of the rule, in quite a while. So the liberals hammered away at objections offered by <b>Alito and the lawyer representing Utah, Tyler Green.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>One interaction, bears close attention. To counter the liberal notion that the entire justice system would join a conspiracy to issue more warrants so police could stop and search nearly anyone, Alito suggested to counsel for the accused, “Do you think the judges in traffic courts are going to start issuing lots of warrants because they want to provide a basis for randomly stopping people?” For purposes of analogies, it was not a bad way of phrasing it, though as you will see soon, it may not have been the best analogy.</div><div>
</div><div>While the liberal justices have never held anything back in oral argument, personal slights such as how Sotomayor treated Alito are exceedingly rare.</div><div>But before the counsel for Strieff could respond fully, instead of correcting the analogy and seeing her colleague’s concerns in the best possible light, Sotomayor turned passive-aggressive on her colleague. “I’m very surprised that Justice Alito doesn’t know that most of these warrants are automatic. If you don’t pay your fine within a certain amount of days, they’re issued virtually automatically.” Slate’s staunchly progressive court watcher Mark Joseph Stern savored his perception that Alito wore “an embarrassed smirk throughout the remainder of arguments, appearing appropriately shamed.”</div><div>
</div><div>What are we to make of this exchange? While the liberal justices have never held anything back in oral argument, personal slights such as how Sotomayor treated Alito are exceedingly rare. If there are any personal disagreements about conduct or character, they are almost always addressed out of the public view. Sotomayor could have presented another analogy or simply corrected Alito, but Sotomayor preferred to deploy a personal slight.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Sotomayor Steps Into the Breach</b></div><div>Scalia not being present may have especially emboldened Sotomayor. It is well known Scalia never favored Sotomayor among the young liberals as much as he did Justice Elena Kagan. As the most senior justice on the court since Justice John Paul Stevens retired (and even before Stevens’s retirement always an outsized persona), Scalia imparted a father-like quality from the bench to the other justices. His presence, combined with his gravitas and quick wit for disarming tense situations in the courtroom, likely encouraged prudent restraint among the other justices.</div><div>Scalia’s presence, combined with his gravitas and quick wit for disarming tense situations in the courtroom, likely encouraged prudent restraint among the other justices.</div><div>No doubt, there’s a tremendous void with him gone. Sotomayor may think she is replacing Scalia’s legendary verve during oral argument with outright contempt toward her conservative colleagues.</div><div>
</div><div>In another recent display of drama between the justices at oral argument, the liberals conducted an all-out verbal assault in the first blockbuster case since Scalia’s death, Hellerstedt. I witnessed the argument last Wednesday. The case concerns a series of measures Texas passed in the wake of the public’s interest in 2013 of the horrid health conditions found at Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Philadelphia abortion clinic, dubbed a “house of horrors” by investigators.</div><div>What was left to the Court to determine was if Texas’s new health and safety regulations create an “undue burden” for access to abortion, as articulated in Casey. All four of the liberal justices premised their arguments against the new regulations with an understanding of abortion as a relatively safe medical procedure, morally and commercially no different than other medical operations.</div><div>
</div><div>As Roberts was trying to wrap up her questioning of the lawyer for the abortion clinics, Sotomayor shouted over Roberts to continue her question.</div><div>Kagan argued, “We know liposuction is 30 times more dangerous, yet doesn’t have the same kinds of requirements.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed out, “This is about…a woman has a fundamental right to make this choice for herself.” But it was once again Sotomayor who shirked the norms of discourse during oral argument. As Roberts was trying to wrap up her questioning of the lawyer for the abortion clinics, Sotomayor shouted over Roberts to continue her question. Roberts allowed her to finish, though he was clearly peeved.</div><div>She reiterated a point made minutes earlier about how unnecessary it is to have a doctor present for a medically induced abortion via pills. As in the oral argument in Strieff, Alito was the only justice to speak up consistently for the conservative position, and by the end he seemed exhausted.</div><div>
</div><div>Supreme Court to Barack Obama</div><div>It’s clear the liberal justices are leveraging their newfound parity in numbers. “The Women Take Over” was the headline after oral argument in Hellerstedt at Slate. Of course, the liberal justices will always be alert to sway the frequent swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy, to their position in cases where the outcome is uncertain.</div><div>
</div><div>As the progressive giant, the late Justice William Brennan, once said, ‘With five votes you can do anything around here.’</div><div>However, Kennedy is likely to vote according to his own unique reasoning, despite the wishes of the liberal bloc. A more lasting goal for the liberal justices, in more and more of these contentious cases, is to leave an imprint on the future Court and its perception. The magic number for them is not their current four, but rather five. As the progressive giant, the late Justice William Brennan, once said, “With five votes you can do anything around here.”</div><div>From their displays the last two weeks, it is as if they are signaling President Barack Obama to nominate someone…anyone…to replace Scalia, get him or her confirmed, and then the liberal bloc will do the rest. Thus, the feeling they wish to impart is one of momentum: that the liberal arguments have it and the conservative ones do not.</div><div>
</div><div>While the “the rule of five” may matter, another number also matters: 60. That’s how many minutes oral argument usually lasts in each case. Of course, time may be extended based on circumstances, but in general, time at oral argument is relatively zero-sum with Roberts running the show. The more time the other justices speak, the less time the liberal justices have to talk about the subjects they want to discuss.</div><div>
</div><div>Just as importantly is what the so-called conservative justices must do with their increased proportion of the time at oral argument. The conservative justices cannot only argue their own questions. They must point out when liberal justices rely on faulty reasoning. Just as Sotomayor was lying in wait to shame Alito in the Strieff oral argument, the conservative justices must respond immediately to the unmoored jurisprudence that emanates regularly from the liberal justices. Attack the ideas and the reasoning, never the justice offering them. Scalia was marvelous at this, but now with his vacancy, one can hope Roberts and Thomas find a newfound sense of duty to fill that void.</div><div>
</div><div>Roberts and Thomas Should Speak Out</div><div>Alito cannot be the only justice raising concerns and wearily responding to the barrage of arguments from the liberal justices. Many hope that Thomas asking his first question at oral argument in ten years the week after Scalia died would be a sign of things to come. By participating in oral argument more often, Thomas would be bucking his well-known understanding of the forum as having little influence on decisions of the Court. However, he would provide invaluable support to the morale of his friend and colleague Alito, and in turn the conservative side.</div><div>
</div><div>Alito cannot be the only justice raising concerns and wearily responding to the barrage of arguments from the liberal justices.</div><div>The liberal commentariat has made far too much hay out of Thomas’s silence at oral argument over the years, but that silence has meant the public has not benefitted from Thomas’s insights until the release of opinions. Thomas has been unfairly lumped in with Scalia’s reasoning over the years, despite their notable differences of approach. For example, Thomas frequently cites the Declaration of Independence as a legal document securing many of our liberties, while Scalia never did so.</div><div>
</div><div>Steering questions at oral argument in Thomas’s direction may force the other liberal justices to engage in conversations in which they would not normally participate, and thus reveal some interesting argumentative threads. Roberts should also participate more during oral argument, but less on the procedural questions which he so often asks, and more with questions on the merits of cases. While it is understandable that Roberts must also manage oral argument as the chief justice, he cannot leave Alito to shoulder the entire load himself if Thomas remains relatively silent.</div><div>
</div><div>Thomas and Roberts are in a remarkable position to teach, but they cannot teach as fully if they concede oral argument (and the news cycle that follows it) to the liberal justices. The conservative justices have quite varied approaches, and are in a remarkable position to teach not only law students, as Scalia would often consider his main audience, but also ordinary Americans looking for the Court’s sense of justice.</div><div>
</div><div>Rightly or wrongly, as the prominence of the Supreme Court in our politics has grown, more and more people are attuned to its work. Here’s hoping Thomas and Roberts see the growing liberal bloc’s assertiveness at oral argument as an opportunity to fill their former colleague Scalia’s shoes and provide morale to the conservative side.</div><div>
</div><div>Garrett Snedeker is the assistant director of the <b>James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights</b> and the American Founding. He lives in Washington DC.</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></font></div><div><b>December 6, 2021</b></div><div><b>Utah taps law firm with Trump ties in fight with Biden admin over national monuments</b></div><div>By Sebastien Malo</div><div>
</div><div>Summary</div><div>Consovoy McCarthy awarded contract for "research and analysis about potential litigation"</div><div><b>Utah wants to undo Biden's restoration of national monument lands cut under Trump</b></div><div>(Reuters) - Utah's attorney general is hiring a law firm for possible litigation over the Biden administration's decision to restore two major U.S. nature reserves to their former size, reversing a move by President Donald Trump.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said Saturday that he awarded law firm Consovoy McCarthy a contract to assist with "research and analysis about potential litigation" related to the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southern Utah.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump cut the 1.3-million acre Bears Ears monument by 85% to around 200,000 acres in 2017 to allow for commercial activity on the former monument land. Grand Staircase-Escalante, created at 1.9 million acres, was reduced to half that size.</span></div><div>
</div><div>President Joe Biden restored the previous boundaries in October. Reyes in a statement called that decision "federal overreach."</div><div>
</div><div>A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither did Consovoy McCarthy.</div><div>Consovoy McCarthy, an Arlington, Virginia-based litigation boutique, is <b>defending Trump amid a demand for his financial records.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> It has also represented Trump's re-election campaign and the national Republican Party in a failed lawsuit to block a Nevada mail-in ballot law ahead of last November's election.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">More recently, the firm helped file a federal appeals court petition earlier this month challenging the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccination requirement.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>The firm counts among its lawyers Tyler Green, who was from 2015 to 2020 Utah's solicitor general.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Utah's contract award for the national monuments work said Consovoy McCarthy would charge the state a blended hourly rate of <b>$498 an hour.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Reyes said in a statement that he urged Congress to work with local governments, states and tribes on a solution that would "avoid a potentially acrimonious legal challenge."</div><div>Read more:</div><div>
</div><div>Biden to restore boundaries of protected areas that were reduced by Trump</div><div>
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