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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;=</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>west va v epa</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 22 intercept</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">Today’s Supreme Court decision marks perhaps the biggest payoff yet for Koch’s decades of plotting against environmental regulations — and the most devastating loss for everyone else. Three of the extremist judges who joined the decision — Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh — wound up on the Supreme Court in large part because of Koch’s activism and contributions.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Americans for Prosperity, an astroturf political group founded by Charles Koch and his brother David, conducted extraordinary campaigns to put all three judges on the highest bench. To support Kavanaugh’s nomination, the group reached out to more than&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22074549-afp_scotus_bythenumbers_830" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">1.2 million Americans</a>&nbsp;through mail, phone calls, and knocking on doors, according to a flyer released by the organization.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;The group also&nbsp;<a href="https://americansforprosperity.org/afp-mounts-full-scale-campaign-to-confirm-judge-amy-coney-barrett/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">pushed hard</a>&nbsp;for Barrett, whose&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amy-coney-barrett-oil-lobby-climate_n_5f905f09c5b62333b2413aa6" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">father worked</a>&nbsp;for Shell and the American Petroleum Institute,</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;a powerful trade group for the oil and gas industry. And it campaigned for&nbsp;<a href="https://americansforprosperity.org/afp-key-vote-yes-on-the-nomination-of-judge-neil-gorsuch-for-associate-justice-of-the-u-s-supreme-court/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Gorsuch</a>, whose mother presided —&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/01/neil-gorsuchs-mother-once-ran-the-epa-it-was-a-disaster/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">disastrously</a>&nbsp;— over the EPA under President Ronald Reagan. Charles Koch is also closely connected to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Leonard Leo</a>, co-chair of the&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/05/10/roe-v-wade-federalist-society-religious-right/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Federalist Society</a>, a conservative organization Koch has supported directly and through his family foundation.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em; hyphens: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The case itself can also be tied directly to Koch. The challengers are</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;27 Republican attorneys general, who were supported by the Koch-funded Republican Attorneys General Association</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">. At least four Koch-funded entities have filed amicus briefs in the case: the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1530/205351/20211216122320892_WV%20v%20EPA%20merits.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Cato Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">, which was co-founded by Charles Koch; the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1530/205559/20211217145954348_West%20Virginia%20v.%20EPA%20final.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">; the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1530/205814/20220105140643234_20-1530%20Amicus%20NCLA%20Supp.%20Petitioners%20REVISED.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">New Civil Liberties Alliance</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">; and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1530/205710/20211220122257878_2021.12.20.AFPF%20Amicus%20Br.WV%20v.%20EPA%20et%20al.No.20%201530.Vide%2020%201531.20%201778.20%201780.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Americans for Prosperity</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">. Another foundation that filed an amicus brief, the</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">&nbsp;<a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1530/205392/20211216142623019_LLFWestVirginiaVEPAAmicusBrief.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Landmark Legal Foundation</a>, denied receiving Koch funding,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> though Jane Mayer reports in her book “</span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-History-Billionaires-Radical/dp/0307947904" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Dark Money</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">” that Koch helped subsidize it....</span></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Landmark Legal Foundation</div><div>Kansas City, MO 64111</div><div>
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</div><div>Total Grants to Landmark Legal Foundation</div><div>Total $ Granted:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>$ 11,007,700</div><div>For Years:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986</div><div># Grants:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>151</div><div>
</div><div>Grants to Landmark Legal Foundation</div><div>Click date for grant details.</div><div>
</div><div>Date<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Amount<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Purpose<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Funder</div><div>12-31-2006<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The <b>Carthage Foundation SCAIFE</b></div><div>12-31-2006<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating expense<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Roe Foundation</div><div>1-1-2006<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>60,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Castle Rock Foundation</div><div>12-31-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>12-31-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating fund<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Roe Foundation</div><div>12-31-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation</div><div>12-31-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Legal and judicial programs and education<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Armstrong Foundation</div><div>12-31-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Carthage Foundation</div><div>12-31-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Fund<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hickory Foundation</div><div>12-31-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>5,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gilder Foundation</div><div>12-16-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support general operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>12-10-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support efforts to hold state teachers' unions legally accountable<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>3-10-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support general operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>60,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Castle Rock Foundation COORS</div><div>1-1-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Undesignated<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation</div><div>1-1-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>45,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>F.M. Kirby Foundation</div><div>1-1-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>20,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Project Support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>William H. Donner Foundation</div><div>1-1-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>William H. Donner Foundation</div><div>1-1-2005<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>150,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Jaquelin Hume Foundation</div><div>12-31-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Carthage Foundation</div><div>12-31-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating fund<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Roe Foundation</div><div>12-31-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>5,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gilder Foundation</div><div>12-31-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>12-31-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Education and preservation of the judicial process<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Armstrong Foundation</div><div>12-16-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Same proposal sent to EFW and GJG for support of NEA<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>12-3-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support general operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>7-9-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support general operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>5-4-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Litigation and public education activities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Undesignated<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation</div><div>1-1-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>60,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Castle Rock Foundation</div><div>1-1-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>45,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>F.M. Kirby Foundation</div><div>1-1-2004<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>William H. Donner Foundation</div><div>12-31-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating fund<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Roe Foundation</div><div>12-31-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Carthage Foundation</div><div>12-31-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>12-31-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Education and preservation of the judicial process<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Armstrong Foundation</div><div>12-12-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support general operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>4-25-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Litigation and public education activities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>4-11-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support general operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>2-18-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation</div><div>1-1-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>5,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Fund<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hickory Foundation</div><div>1-1-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>45,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>F.M. Kirby Foundation</div><div>1-1-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Undesignated<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation</div><div>1-1-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>55,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Castle Rock Foundation</div><div>1-1-2003<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Jaquelin Hume Foundation</div><div>12-31-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Education and preservation of the judicial process<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Armstrong Foundation</div><div>12-31-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>5,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gilder Foundation</div><div>5-3-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>JM Foundation</div><div>3-21-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Funds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation</div><div>1-1-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No comment provided<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No comment provided<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Carthage Foundation</div><div>1-1-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>75,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support of public interest law firm<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Castle Rock Foundation</div><div>1-1-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>30,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>litigation and public education activities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Entered as 'Landmark Foundation')<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Jaquelin Hume Foundation</div><div>1-1-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Undesignated<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation</div><div>1-1-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>20,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation</div><div>1-1-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>40,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>F.M. Kirby Foundation</div><div>1-1-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>5,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Fund<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hickory Foundation</div><div>1-1-2002<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>75,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>William H. Donner Foundation</div><div>12-31-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>20,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Educational and preservation of the judicial process<span style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>Armstrong Foundation</b></div><div>2-12-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Funds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>550,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Scaife Family Foundation</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>30,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Litigation and public education activities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Jaquelin Hume Foundation</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating fund<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Roe Foundation</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>30,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>William H. Donner Foundation</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>William H. Donner Foundation</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Undesignated<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>"Quality Schools 2000" initiative<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>40,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>F.M. Kirby Foundation</div><div>1-1-2001<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>5,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Fund<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hickory Foundation</div><div>12-31-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Educational and preservation of the judicial process<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Armstrong Foundation</div><div>12-31-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gilder Foundation</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Scaife Family Foundation</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Litigation and public education activities.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Castle Rock Foundation</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>500,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Roe Foundation</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>77,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>William H. Donner Foundation</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>30,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>F.M. Kirby Foundation</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Funds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>225,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Funds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>5,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Fund<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hickory Foundation</div><div>1-1-2000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Charitable<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Walton Family Foundation</div><div>12-31-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>20,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Education and preservation of the judicial process<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Armstrong Foundation</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>30,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Litigation and public education activities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>125,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>no description given<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Carthage Foundation</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>200,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>no description given<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Scaife Family Foundation</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>375,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General support; a public interest law firm<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Castle Rock Foundation</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Roe Foundation</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>115,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>William H. Donner Foundation</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Funds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation</div><div>1-1-1999<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Funds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation</div><div>8-12-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Education & preservation of the judicial process<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Armstrong Foundation</div><div>3-6-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Funds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation</div><div>2-12-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>2,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Roe Foundation</div><div>1-10-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Funds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation</div><div>1-1-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>30,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Litigation and public education activities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>no description given<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>210,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Scaife Family Foundation</div><div>1-1-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No description available<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Carthage Foundation</div><div>1-1-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Toward educational programs on property rights and school choice<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>JM Foundation</div><div>1-1-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>57,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No purpose given.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>William H. Donner Foundation</div><div>1-1-1998<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Funds<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation</div><div>1-1-1997<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Litigation and public education activities<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1997<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>150,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>No description given<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Scaife Family Foundation</div><div>1-1-1997<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>250,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-1997<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>125,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>EDUCATION RESEARCH PROJECT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-1997<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1997<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>A public interest law firm.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Castle Rock Foundation</div><div>1-1-1996<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>275,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-1996<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Scaife Family Foundation</div><div>1-1-1996<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>Allegheny Foundation = scaife</b></div><div>1-1-1996<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>10,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General Operations<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1995<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Litigation and public education programs<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1995<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>150,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-1995<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>225,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Scaife Family Foundation</div><div>1-1-1995<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>15,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Allegheny Foundation</div><div>1-1-1995<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>125,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Carthage Foundation</div><div>1-1-1994<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-1994<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Scaife Family Foundation</div><div>1-1-1994<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>150,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Carthage Foundation</div><div>5-11-1993<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>37,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support the Center for Civil Rights<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1993<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-1993<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>75,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Carthage Foundation</div><div>11-18-1992<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>37,500<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support the Center for Civil Rights<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1992<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support litigation programs<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1992<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>12-18-1991<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>82,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support the activities of the Center for Civil Rights.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>12-18-1991<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>82,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support the activities of the Center for Civil Rights.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>7-8-1991<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support the activities of the foundation's Center for Civil Rights<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1991<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>75,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>11-26-1990<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>18,700<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support a public opinion survey project on educational choice issues in Milwaukee and Wisconsin.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>10-18-1990<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>35,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support the foundation's litigation activities.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>6-18-1990<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>75,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support the foundation's Center for Civil Rights.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1990<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support litigation and research<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1990<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>8-1-1989<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>75,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support the general operations of Landmark's Center for Civil Rights.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>5-1-1989<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>5,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation</div><div>1-1-1989<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>3-25-1988<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Center for Civil Rights.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1988<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>50,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>1-1-1987<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>To support the Legal service Corporation litigation project<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</div><div>1-1-1987<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>General operating support<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Scaife Foundation</div><div>12-1-1986<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>25,000<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Purpose not available<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Carthage Foundation</div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div id="pp_card" class="block content_unit" itemtype="http://schema.org/Attorney" itemscope="true" style="padding: 0.25rem 0.625rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.625rem;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div class="block_content" style="margin: 1.125rem 0px;"><div class="pp_card_focus_name" style="line-height: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-top: 0.5rem;"><a href="http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2408830_1" style="background: transparent; 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The conservative-leaning legal group had sued the agency under FOIA for records of communications between EPA staff and outside parties discussing pending regulations.</font></font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a separate&nbsp;<a href="http://www.eenews.net/assets/2015/03/02/document_pm_02.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">opinion</a>, a federal judge blasted EPA over its handling of the request, saying the agency's conduct "reflects poorly upon EPA and surely serves to diminish the public's trust in the agency" (<a href="http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/stories/1060014314" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">E&E News PM</span></a>, March 2, 2015).</font></font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an interview, Mike O'Neill, assistant general counsel for the foundation, said the group's request was ignored. The settlement was so large in order to cover the hours that the foundation's lawyers worked on the case.</font></font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Those were for our attorneys' hours working on the litigation," O'Neill said. "That was a bargain for EPA because there were a substantial amount of hours worked on that case."</font></font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Neill added, "These agencies can avoid attorney fees if they provide the records."</font></font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Others agreed with O'Neill's assessment.</font></font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The simple answer is that EPA repeatedly violates the law by stonewalling our requests," said Sam Kazman, general counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has filed several FOIA lawsuits against the agency. "If EPA were complying with FOIA, we'd have no basis for our suits and EPA would have no reason to agree to pay attorney fees for them."</font></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/landmark-legal-foundation</font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Landmark Legal Foundation specializes in battling opponents of school vouchers, unions, and environmental regulations in the name of opposing "big government." Landmark's president, Mark Levin, is a high-profile right-wing media figure who hosts his own radio program, contributes to the&nbsp;<em>National Review</em>, and is the author of&nbsp;<em>Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America</em>.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal Foundation&nbsp;
19415 Deerfield Avenue Suite 312
Leesburg, VA 20176
Website:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.landmarklegal.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">www.landmarklegal.org</a></font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>President</strong>: Mark R. Levin
<strong>Founded/Place</strong>: 1976
<strong>Advisory Council Member</strong>: Becky Norton Dunlop
<strong>Board of Directors</strong>: Roy Innis (Congress of Racial Equality), Walter Williams (CATO Institute, Heritage Foundation), Edwin Meese III, (Former Attorney General), WM. Bradford Reynolds (Federalist Society), Steve A. Matthews, Gary L. McDowell, Lawrence F. Davenport, John Richardson, Rush Limbaugh&nbsp;
<strong>Former President</strong>: Jerald Hill
<strong>Finances</strong>: $1,794,247 (2005 revenue)
<strong>Media</strong>: The Mark Levin Show, aired on the radio weekly on WABC AM station.&nbsp;
<strong>Publications</strong>:&nbsp;<em>Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America</em>, a book by President Mark Levin</font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read the latest news on the Landmark Legal Foundation on the group's&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/groups/landmark_legal/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Right Wing Watch index page</a></font></strong></font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Purpose</font></font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal Foundation (LFF) is a legal advocacy group that litigates based on the principles of individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. Among others, LLF has targeted the National Education Association, the Democratic National Committee, the AFL-CIO, Emily's List, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Forest Service.</font></font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activities</font></font></h3><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; list-style-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" rightwingwatch="rightwingwatch" images="images" bullet.png="bullet.png" line-height="line-height" px="px"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In February 2007, LLF&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2007/0004518421&EDATE" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">nominated</a>&nbsp;right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> calling him the "foremost advocate for freedom and democracy in the world today." Limbaugh serves as an unpaid member of Landmark's Board of Advisors.</span></font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal Foundation (LLF) initiates litigation against major non-profit, governmental, and social institutions.</font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>LLF focuses primarily on education and environmental litigation,</b> in an attempt to dismantle institutions that preserve universal public schooling and that promote and fight for a clean environment. It assists state legislators in their pursuit to enact educational reforms such as providing <b>school vouchers, private management of public schools, and other voucher initiatives.</b></font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mark Levin is a contributing editor of&nbsp;<em>National Review</em>, as well as a frequent contributor to the&nbsp;<em>Washington Times</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Human Events</em>.</font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Works for welfare reform.</font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Played a role in supporting Paula Jones during the Clinton sexual scanda</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">l by receiving funds from the Scaife Foundation and finding lawyers for Jones.&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Salon</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, "</span><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/04/cov_02news.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Newsreal: The men who kept Paula Jones lawsuit going</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></font></font></li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judicial Nominees Activity</font></font></h3><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; list-style-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" rightwingwatch="rightwingwatch" images="images" bullet.png="bullet.png" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal Foundation is a member of Kay Daly's Coalition for a Fair Judiciary, along with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4314" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Free Congress Foundation</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4193" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">American Conservative Union</a>,<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4211" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Family Research Council</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3151" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Concerned Women for America</a>, and the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4307" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Christian Coalition</a>.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/12/114917.shtml" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Source</a></font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal adamantly opposed the Senate Democrats' use of the filibuster against judicial nominees. In an op-ed in January of 2005, Levin explained that, "Whatever the politics of ending the Senate's judicial filibusters, and one can only speculate, defending the Constitution is paramount…By denying the president numerous key appointments to vacancies on the federal bench, the judiciary grows increasingly activist due to the remaining numerous Clinton appointees." Landmark Legal Foundation&nbsp;<a href="http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050110-084508-7971r.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">op-ed</a></font></font></li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Funding</font></font></h3><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; list-style-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" rightwingwatch="rightwingwatch" images="images" bullet.png="bullet.png" line-height="line-height" px="px"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=747" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">MediaTransparency</a>, Landmark received $8,935,200 between 1986 and 2003 in a total of 118 grants.</font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark has received $20,000 from<b> ExxonMobil</b> Foundation since 1998</font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to its 990 report, Landmark Legal Foundation received $1,567,258 in gifts, grants, and contributions in 2002.</font></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other funders include the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Allegheny_Foundation&action=edit" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Allegheny Foundation</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lynde and Harry <b>Bradley,</b> Foundation, Inc.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carthage_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carthage Foundation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Castle_Rock_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Castle Rock Foundation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=JM_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JM Foundation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_G.Koch_Charitable_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_M.McKenna_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_M.Olin_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John M. <b>Olin Foundation, Inc.</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>,&nbsp;</b></span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Sarah Scaife</b> Foundation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Scaife_Family_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Scaife Family Foundation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></font></li></ul><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">History</font></font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal Foundation, one of the earlier conservative legal organizations, was founded in 1976, and initially called the Great Plains Legal Foundation. It was created to address the special interest groups and unions "dedicated to tearing down [individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited government] and advancing Big Government."</font></font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About President Mark R. Levin</font></font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Levin is a former employee of the Reagan Administration, and represented former Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese during the Iran-Contra investigation. He was a leading advocate of the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and Rush Limbaugh named him head of his (Limbaugh's) "legal division." In 2001 Levin received the Ronald Reagan Award from the American Conservative Union. Finally, Levin strongly disapproves of the United Nations, which he claims is anti-Semitic and disorganized (see quote below).&nbsp;
&nbsp;</font></font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.769em; margin-bottom: 0.769em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Quotes</font></font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From LLF's nomination of right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize: "Rush Limbaugh is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host in the United States and one of the most popular broadcasters in the world. His daily radio show is heard on more than 600 radio stations in the United States and around the world. For 18 years he has used his show to become the foremost advocate for freedom and democracy in the world today. Everyday he gives voice to the values of democratic governance, individual opportunity and the just, equal application of the rule of law — and it is fitting the Nobel Committee recognize the power of these ideals to build a truly peaceful world for future generations."</font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"How can [John Kerry] support an organization that anti-Semitic? I would like to know how the U.N., given the make-up of the august body, is any different than the KKK or all the rest of it. They've got people in that U.N. that are torturers, mass-murderers, anti-Semites, anti-Americans, anti-freedom, and we're supposed to keep conferring our decisions to them. Why?"—Mark R. Levin&nbsp;<a href="http://radio.launch.yahoo.com/radio/clientdata/1/player.asp?cid=1&iid=1&ltw=LaunchRadioTarget&p=1&m=59&d=0&modeInitialized=1&mode=1&resized=1&bridgeInit=1&bridgeMode=1" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">audio</a></font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Landmark Legal Foundation is presently engaged in a two front battle— the most ambitious and arguably the most important we've ever faced. It is quite literally a battle for America's future.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We're confronting the nation's chief obstacle to substantive education reform - the NEA - not only at the national level, but in the states where the union spends millions in tax exempt funds on unreported and hence illegal political activities. In the coming months we will launch the first wave of complaints against key NEA state affiliates. In addition, the Foundation will undertake a major outreach initiative to regional, national and specialty media and key opinion leaders to garner attention and caste the spectrum of public debate where it belongs— on the actions of a union that has no respect for the law. Landmark's complaints and public outreach efforts will bring to the state unions the same unremitting and unwelcome scrutiny from governmental agencies and the media that has resulted in a full IRS field audit and Labor Department investigation of the national union.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We are also challenging what may be the most insidious legacy of modern liberalism— judicial activism and the radical judges who use it to advance an extremist social agenda. America's courts have become the final bulwark for the advocates of big government who have been defeated time after time at the ballot box at the local, state and federal level. Through an aggressive and multifaceted public education campaign, Landmark's Judicial Reform Initiative is helping to reshape the public debate and crystallize public sentiment about the mission of America's courts and the proper limits on their authority. With the Roberts Nomination to the Supreme Court currently before the Senate— as well as the ongoing controversy about filibusters in the Senate over nominees to federal district and appeals courts, this has become one of Landmark's highest priorities."&nbsp;<a href="http://www.landmarklegal.org/DesktopFrame.aspx?frame=MESSAGE&artnumber=-1&modid=630" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Source</a></font></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.0161px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
Updated:&nbsp;September 2007</font></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;<span class="field field-name-field-sources field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><a href="http://alternet.org/" style="">AlterNet</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[1]</span></span></span></span>&nbsp;/&nbsp;By&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/bill-berkowitz" style="">Bill Berkowitz</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[2]</span></font></font></p><div class="print-content" style=""><div id="node-587250" class="node node-story view-mode-print clearfix" about="/story/10496/defunding_the_left" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="position: relative;"><div class="headline"><h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Defunding the Left</font></font></h1></div><div class="the_body body_news-politics clearfix"><div class="story-date"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden" style=""><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2001-02-18T21:00:00-08:00">February 18,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2001</span></span></span></span></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;| &nbsp;</font></font></div><div class="story-date"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For years, "defunding the left" has been an idea that has resonated deeply with conservatives. Now that Republicans have control of the White House and Congress, it's an idea whose time may be coming faster than you think. President Bush's initiative to move government services to faith-based organizations and the battle over the nomination of Attorney General John Ashcroft may provide the necessary trigger to turn the right's twenty-plus-year pipedream into a reality.
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Terrence Scanlon, president of the Capital Research Center</b>&nbsp;(CRC), and Mark R. Levin, head of the Landmark Legal Foundation are two longtime conservative activists on the front lines of this fight.

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Scanlon's Capital Research Center, founded in 1984, is one of the lesser-known Washington, DC-based think tanks that serves as a conservative watchdog over so-called liberal/left nonprofit philanthropic institutions. CRC's analyzes how "those organizations with tax-exempt, tax-deductible -- and sometimes tax dollars -- mix advocacy and 'direct action' to promote their own vision of the public interest." CRC also looks at how closely individuals in the corporate and foundation sectors are sticking to the&nbsp;<b>"donor intent"&nbsp;</b>of the founders of these corporations.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In mid-February, Scanlon told a packed house at the 28th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that "for the first time we have an opportunity to go after these [liberal nonprofit] groups and take away their federal money."</span>&nbsp;Conservative News Service (CNS) reported that in his remarks, Scanlon named several organizations that are receiving federal funding including the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). He told the gathering that the "AARP received $73 million in federal grants<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;in 1999, 73 million of your tax dollars went to the AARP. Most of this money came from the Labor Department for job training programs for seniors."</span>

Scanlon pointed to what he considered the most "egregious" example of a group getting federal funds -- the National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSC). Founded in 1960 during the Kennedy-Johnson campaign, Scanlon said that NCSC "were well known four years ago during the Hillary Clinton health care debate when they were lobbying for&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">national health care.</span>&nbsp;Their budget is 96 percent federally funded. If it were not for federal dollars there would be no National Council for Senior Citizens."

<b>Mark R, Levin, head of the Landmark Legal Foundation</b>&nbsp;has been doing more than giving speeches about challenging federal funding of liberal non-profit groups. During the first week in February, Landmark announced the formation of its<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;"501-C Project" which intends to "ensure that liberal non-profit organizations that lobby against presidential appointments comply with U.S. tax and lobbying laws."</span>

The Unification Church-owned Washington Times reported that&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Landmark has asked the Internal Revenue Service "to investigate accusations that several civil rights groups and other nonprofit organizations violated their federal tax-exempt status by participating in lobbying efforts against the nomination of John Ashcroft as attorney general."</span>

According to Levin: "Published reports reveal that scores of liberal, 501(c) tax-exempt groups spent the last month, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, in a well-coordinated and highly organized lobbying campaign against the Ashcroft nomination. They have also announced that they will lobby against future nominees who they consider too conservative. The IRS must look at these activities very carefully to ensure that these organizations are not skirting the law or failing to pay their taxes."

Levin pointed to a January 9 meeting of organizations opposed to Ashcroft's nomination, held at the headquarters of the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Association of University Women. Called by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, among the groups Levin identified as present were the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People<b>(NAACP), the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women</b>'s Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Education Association</span>&nbsp;and the National Black Women's Health Project.

This was one of several complaints with federal agencies that Landmark has filed during the past few months. They filed a complaint with the IRS and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against one of the right's perennial targets, the&nbsp;<b>National Education Association</b>. Over the years, Landmark has butted heads with the NEA particularly around the issue of school vouchers in Wisconsin, where Landmark provided legal support for pro-voucher organizations.

Levin claims the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;teachers union&nbsp;</span>is using millions of dollars in unreported tax-exempt funds to influence the outcome of political races. According to its website&nbsp;<a href="http://www.landmarklegal.org/" style="">www.landmarklegal.org,</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[3]</span>&nbsp;the complaint, part of the its Quality Schools 2001 initiative, claims that "the last several NEA Form 990 federal tax returns, submitted to the IRS under penalty of perjury, disclose no political expenditures whatsoever. The NEA and several of its affiliates have also failed to disclose the full extent of their political activities to the Federal Election Commission (FEC)."

Landmark is asking these government agencies to "initiate comprehensive investigations of the NEA's political activities and expenditures to determine whether it has violated federal tax and campaign laws. Landmark is also asking the IRS to consider whether the NEA's tax-exempt status should be revoked, and whether the IRS and the FEC should impose fines and penalties on the NEA."

Landmark was founded in 1976, as the Great Plains Legal Foundation with an office in Kansas City, Mo. (it also has an office in Herndon, Va.) Its mission is to provide litigation and legal aid to conservatives and conservative causes. In 1995, taking advantage of the Republican takeover of the House, Landmark stitched together a plan called "Beyond the First 100 Days: A Legal Reform Plan for the 104th Congress," which put forward strict conservative ideas in several areas including antitrust, civil justice, criminal justice, and private property rights.

"Defunding the left" is not a new project for conservatives. (It should be noted that for conservatives, "left" includes any organizations to the right of Attila the Hunt.) Almost eighteen years ago, longtime muckraker James Ridgeway wrote about the onslaught against various non-profit organizations in the Village Voice. He noted that the campaign was "being carried out through direct-mail solicitation‚ in the pages of Conservative Digest‚ and in other right-wing publications‚ and by researchers and propagandists for such conservative think tanks as the Heritage Foundation."

Flash forward two decades and the defunding crowd's planets are moving closer toward alignment. According to CNS,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Terrence Scanlon praised Senator Judd Gregg&nbsp;</span>(R-N.H.) for "attempting to take away federal funding from these non-profits during the last congressional session." Although Gregg lost that battle, Scanlon believes that the Senator's efforts, combined with the GOP's control over the government, might be the prelude to success. Since most heads of government agencies should be conservative, "for the first time we have an opportunity to go after these groups and take away their federal money," he told the aroused crowd. "Let's do it," he bellowed, urging his audience to go back home and mobilize at the grassroots in order to realize their twenty-plus-year dream of defunding the left.

Bill Berkowitz is an Oakland-based freelance journalist covering the Religious Right and related conservative movements. Contact him via e-mail at<a href="mailto:wkbbronx@aol.com" style="">wkbbronx@aol.com.</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote" style="">[4]</span></font></font></div><div class="big_story_tools_bottom_container"><div class="talk_box"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="small" /></font></font></div></div><div class="story_tools_bottom"><div class="text-size"><div class="story_tools_email"><div class="story_tools_print"><div class="story_tools_share"><div class="story_tools_social_buttons"><div class="comment_button"><div class="print-footer" style="text-align: center;"><hr class="print-hr" style="text-align: left; border: 0px; height: 1px; width: 1047.2px; background-color: rgb(158, 158, 158);" /><div class="print-source_url" style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Source URL:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/10496/defunding_the_left" style="">http://www.alternet.org/story/10496/defunding_the_left</a></font></font></div><div class="print-links"><p /><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Links:</font></strong></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[1] http://alternet.org</font></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[2] http://www.alternet.org/authors/bill-berkowitz</font></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[3] http://www.landmarklegal.org</font></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[4] mailto:wkbbronx@aol.com</font></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[5] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B</font></font></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <b>Landmark Legal Foundation</b> (LLF) has a $1 million annual budget and a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">reputation as a "conservative's <a title="American Civil Liberties Union" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Civil_Liberties_Union">American Civil Liberties Union</a>."</span> It has filed lawsuits against <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">labor unions and school desegregation and has fought for legislation that would allow parents to direct public education funding toward their children's private schools.</span></font></p>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Landmark_Legal_Foundation#History"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Landmark_Legal_Foundation#Personnel"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Personnel</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Landmark_Legal_Foundation#Funders"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Funders</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Landmark_Legal_Foundation#Contact_information"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Contact information</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Landmark_Legal_Foundation#External_links"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">History</font></span></h2>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the early 1990s, LLF twice presented arguments before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in support of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Governor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tommy_Thompson" title="Tommy Thompson">Tommy Thompson</a>'s "school-choice voucher program" to channel public funding to private schools.</span> It has frequently clashed with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Education_Association" title="National Education Association">National Education Association</a>, the country's largest teachers' union.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Whitewater special investigator<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_Starr" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenneth Starr">Kenneth Starr</a> </span>also has ties to Landmark, which played a key behind-the-scenes role in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit against <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=President_Clinton" class="mw-redirect" title="President Clinton">President Clinton</a>.<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/04/cov_02news.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/04/cov_02news.html" rel="nofollow">[1]</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The President of LLF, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Levin" title="Mark Levin">Mark Levin</a> announced in February 2001 that it was launching its "501-C Project" to "ensure that liberal non-profit organizations that lobby against presidential appointments comply with U.S. tax and lobbying laws."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Unification_Church" title="Unification Church">Unification Church</a>-owned <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Times" title="Washington Times">Washington Times</a> reported that Landmark has asked the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Internal Revenue Service</a> "to investigate accusations that several civil rights groups and other nonprofit organizations violated their federal tax-exempt status by participating in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">lobbying efforts against the nomination of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Ashcroft" class="mw-redirect" title="John Ashcroft">John Ashcroft</a> as attorney general</span>." <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10496" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10496" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Published reports reveal that scores of liberal, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=501%28c%29%283%29" title="501(c)(3)">501(c)</a> tax-exempt groups spent the last month, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, in a well-coordinated and highly organized lobbying campaign against the Ashcroft nomination. They have also announced that they will lobby against future nominees who they consider too conservative. The IRS must look at these activities very carefully to ensure that these organizations are not skirting the law or failing to pay their taxes," Levin wrote in the Washington Times.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At present, Landmark Legal Foundation bills itself as "the only public interest legal group - from the right or the left - to use the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=I._Lewis_Scooter_Libby" title="I. Lewis Scooter Libby">Lewis Libby</a> prosecution by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Office_of_Special_Counsel" title="Office of Special Counsel">Special Counsel</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Fitzgerald" class="mw-redirect" title="Patrick Fitzgerald">Patrick Fitzgerald</a> to raise the issue of abuse of the "appointments clause:" in the U.S. Constitution to circumvent constitutional limitations on the power of the federal government to investigate suspected violations of federal law."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On August 17, 2007, Landmark filed a Amicus Curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, supporting Lewis Libby's argument that the appointment of Patrick J. Fitzgerald, US Attorney of the Northern District of Illinois, as Special Prosecutor in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a> leak investigation violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. Landmark also filed a motion for permission to file the amicus brief, the same day.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On August 20, 2007, the appeals court granted the motion to file the amicus brief.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark has posted the amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, more than 30 pages long, on its web site. The same argument was made before the U.S. District Court and was rejected by Judge Reggie B. Walton; the amicus brief requests that the lower court's decision be overturned.</font></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Personnel</font></span></h2>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Levin" title="Mark Levin">Mark Levin</a>, president</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jerald_Hill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jerald Hill (page does not exist)">Jerald Hill</a>, former president</font></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Funders</font></span></h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Allegheny_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Allegheny Foundation (page does not exist)"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Allegheny Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a>, Inc.</font></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carthage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Carthage Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Carthage Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Castle_Rock_Foundation" title="Castle Rock Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Castle Rock Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=JM_Foundation" title="JM Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">JM Foundation</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_G._Koch_Charitable_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation</b></font></a></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_M._McKenna_Foundation" title="Philip M. McKenna Foundation">Philip M. McKenna Foundation</a>, Inc.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_M._Olin_Foundation" title="John M. Olin Foundation">John M. Olin Foundation</a>, Inc.</font></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarah Scaife Foundation"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sarah Scaife Foundation</font></a></li>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Landmark Legal Foundation specializes in battling opponents of school vouchers, unions, and environmental regulations in the name of opposing "big government." Landmark's president, Mark Levin, is a high-profile right-wing media figure who hosts his own radio program, contributes to the <em>National Review</em>, and is the author of <em>Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America</em>.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal Foundation

19415 Deerfield Avenue Suite 312

Leesburg, VA 20176

Website: <a href="http://www.landmarklegal.org/" target="_blank">www.landmarklegal.org</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>President</strong>: Mark R. Levin

<strong>Founded/Place</strong>: 1976

<strong>Advisory Council Member</strong>: Becky Norton Dunlop

<strong>Board of Directors</strong>: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Roy Innis (Congress of Racial Equality)</span>, Walter Williams (CATO Institute, Heritage Foundation),<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Edwin Meese III, (Former Attorney General), WM. Bradford Reynolds (Federalist Society)</span>, Steve A. Matthews, Gary L. McDowell, Lawrence F. Davenport, John Richardson<b>, Rush Limbaugh</b>

<strong>Former President</strong>: Jerald Hill

<strong>Finances</strong>: $1,794,247 (2005 revenue)

<strong>Media</strong>: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Mark Levin Show, </span>aired on the radio weekly on WABC AM station.

<strong>Publications</strong>: Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America, a book by President Mark Levin</font>

<strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read the latest news on the Landmark Legal Foundation on the group's <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/groups/landmark_legal/index.html">Right Wing Watch index page</a></font></strong></p>

<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Purpose</font></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal Foundation (LFF) is a legal advocacy group that litigates based on the principles of individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. Among others, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">LLF has targeted the National Education Association, the Democratic National Committee, the AFL-CIO, Emily's List, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Forest Service.</span></font></p>

<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activities</font></h3>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In February 2007, LLF <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2007/0004518421&EDATE" target="_blank">nominated</a> right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize, calling him the "foremost advocate for freedom and democracy in the world today." Limbaugh serves as an unpaid member of Landmark's Board of Advisors.</font></li>

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</li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal Foundation (LLF) initiates litigation against major non-profit, governmental, and social institutions.</font></li>

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</li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LLF focuses primarily on education and environmental litigation, in an attempt to dismantle institutions that preserve universal public schooling and that promote and fight for a clean environment. It assists state legislators in their pursuit to enact educational reforms such as providing school vouchers, private management of public schools, and other voucher initiatives.</font></li>

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</li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Levin is a contributing editor of <em>National Review</em>, as well as a frequent contributor to the <em>Washington Times</em> and <em>Human Events</em>.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Works for welfare reform.</font></li>

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</li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Played a role in supporting Paula Jones during the Clinton sexual scandal by receiving funds from the Scaife Foundation and finding lawyers for Jones. <em>Salon</em>, "<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/04/cov_02news.html" target="_blank">Newsreal: The men who kept Paula Jones lawsuit going</a>"</font></li>

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<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judicial Nominees Activity</font></h3>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal Foundation is a member of Kay Daly's Coalition for a Fair Judiciary, along with <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4314" target="blank">Free Congress Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4193" target="blank">American Conservative Union</a>, <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4211" target="blank">Family Research Council</a>, <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3151" target="blank">Concerned Women for America</a>, and the <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4307" target="blank">Christian Coalition</a>. <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/12/114917.shtml" target="blank">Source</a></font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal adamantly opposed the Senate Democrats' use of the filibuster against judicial nominees. In an op-ed in January of 2005, Levin explained that, "Whatever the politics of ending the Senate's judicial filibusters, and one can only speculate, defending the Constitution is paramount…By denying the president numerous key appointments to vacancies on the federal bench, the judiciary grows increasingly activist due to the remaining numerous Clinton appointees." Landmark Legal Foundation <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050110-084508-7971r.htm" target="_blank">op-ed</a></font></li>

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<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Funding</font></h3>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to <a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=747" target="_blank">MediaTransparency</a>, Landmark received $8,935,200 between 1986 and 2003 in a total of 118 grants.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark has received $20,000 from<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> ExxonMobil </span>Foundation since 1998</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to its 990 report, Landmark Legal Foundation received $1,567,258 in gifts, grants, and contributions in 2002.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other funders include the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Allegheny_Foundation&action=edit" target="blank">Allegheny Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" target="blank">Lynde and Harry Bradley, Foundation, Inc.</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carthage_Foundation" target="blank">Carthage Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Castle_Rock_Foundation" target="blank">Castle Rock Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=JM_Foundation" target="blank">JM Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_G.Koch_Charitable_Foundation" target="blank">Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_M.McKenna_Foundation" target="blank">Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_M.Olin_Foundation" target="blank">John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" target="blank">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Scaife_Family_Foundation" target="_blank">Scaife Family Foundation</a>.</font></li>

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<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">History</font></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Landmark Legal Foundation, one of the earlier conservative legal organizations, was founded i<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">n 1976, </span>and initially called the Great Plains Legal Foundation. It was created to address the special interest groups and unions "dedicated to tearing down [individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited government] and advancing Big Government."</font></p>

<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About President Mark R. Levin</font></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mark Levin is a former employee of the Reagan Administration, and represented former Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese during the Iran-Contra investigation.</span> He was a leading advocate of the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and Rush Limbaugh named him head of his (Limbaugh's) "legal division." In 2001 Levin received the Ronald Reagan Award from the American Conservative Union. Finally, Levin strongly disapproves of the United Nations, which he claims is anti-Semitic and disorganized (see quote below).

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<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Quotes</font></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From LLF's nomination of right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize: "Rush Limbaugh is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host in the United States and one of the most popular broadcasters in the world. His daily radio show is heard on more than 600 radio stations in the United States and around the world. For 18 years he has used his show to become the foremost advocate for freedom and democracy in the world today. Everyday he gives voice to the values of democratic governance, individual opportunity and the just, equal application of the rule of law — and it is fitting the Nobel Committee recognize the power of these ideals to build a truly peaceful world for future generations."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"How can [John Kerry] support an organization that anti-Semitic? I would like to know how the U.N., given the make-up of the august body, is any different than the KKK or all the rest of it. They've got people in that U.N. that are torturers, mass-murderers, anti-Semites, anti-Americans, anti-freedom, and we're supposed to keep conferring our decisions to them. Why?"—Mark R. Levin <a href="http://radio.launch.yahoo.com/radio/clientdata/1/player.asp?cid=1&iid=1&ltw=LaunchRadioTarget&p=1&m=59&d=0&modeInitialized=1&mode=1&resized=1&bridgeInit=1&bridgeMode=1" target="_blank">audio</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Landmark Legal Foundation is presently engaged in a two front battle— the most ambitious and arguably the most important we've ever faced. It is quite literally a battle for America's future.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We're confronting the nation's chief obstacle to substantive education reform - the NEA - not only at the national level, but in the states where the union spends millions in tax exempt funds on unreported and hence illegal political activities. In the coming months we will launch the first wave of complaints against key NEA state affiliates. In addition, the Foundation will undertake a major outreach initiative to regional, national and specialty media and key opinion leaders to garner attention and caste the spectrum of public debate where it belongs— on the actions of a union that has no respect for the law. Landmark's complaints and public outreach efforts will bring to the state unions the same unremitting and unwelcome scrutiny from governmental agencies and the media that has resulted in a full IRS field audit and Labor Department investigation of the national union.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We are also challenging what may be the most insidious legacy of modern liberalism— judicial activism and the radical judges who use it to advance an extremist social agenda. America's courts have become the final bulwark for the advocates of big government who have been defeated time after time at the ballot box at the local, state and federal level. Through an aggressive and multifaceted public education campaign, Landmark's Judicial Reform Initiative is helping to reshape the public debate and crystallize public sentiment about the mission of America's courts and the proper limits on their authority. With the Roberts Nomination to the Supreme Court currently before the Senate— as well as the ongoing controversy about filibusters in the Senate over nominees to federal district and appeals courts, this has become one of Landmark's highest priorities." <a href="http://www.landmarklegal.org/DesktopFrame.aspx?frame=MESSAGE&artnumber=-1&modid=630" target="_blank">Source</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Updated: September 2007</font></p>

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