The GOP's 'dark money' critique of Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination is absurd.
was backed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and more than 50 anonymously funded amici curiae, or “friends of the court,” who urged the justices to create new constitutional protections for dark-money spending. The majority did so over the dissent of all three progressive justices, holding that the First Amendment restricts states from requiring dark-money nonprofits to disclose their donors to state regulators, even confidentially.
As Senate Republicans spend this week carrying the water of right-wing dark-money groups by decrying left-wing dark money, they’re counting on Americans not to keep track of these pesky details.
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