Left-wing donors fund attacks on conservative Supreme Court justices via ProPublica.
A Nonprofit News Outlet Funded by Left-Wing Organization Attacks Conservative Supreme Court Justices
ProPublica, a nonprofit news outlet, has been launching personal attacks on two conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices. Interestingly, it is being funded by the same left-wing organization that actively campaigns for their removal.
According to tax documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation on June 20, ProPublica has written multiple stories about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ alleged ethics violations while receiving donations from the same groups that are actively campaigning for his resignation or removal from the Court.
The left-wing nonprofit, the Sandler Foundation, has been accused of pouring millions into multiple groups attacking Thomas’ character and supporting the attacks on his colleague, Justice Samuel Alito, as part of a wider effort to marginalize conservatives on the Supreme Court.
The Sandler Foundation, which founded ProPublica in 2007, has given the outlet $40 million since 2010 to keep it afloat.
Interestingly, the same organization has been funding dark-money groups that have been seeking to oust Thomas from the Court for years in order to replace him with a leftist.
ProPublica Caught Participating in a Conspiracy to Remove Justice Thomas
ProPublica has published several investigations over the past few months into Thomas’ relationship with conservative billionaire real estate developer Harlan Crow, which the publication called inappropriate.
The stories have covered expensive trips Thomas took with Crow, the developer’s purchase of the home of the justice’s mother, and paying for the private school tuition of Thomas’ grandnephew.
The articles often include quotes from activists belonging to the various groups that received funding from The Sandler Foundation, which has been exposed as a major financial supporter of left-wing groups attacking Thomas.
The Sandler Foundation has also funded other left-wing groups, such as The Center for American Progress, the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, and Sierra Club, according to its website.
“It is no coincidence that several organizations smearing Justice Thomas are funded generously by many of the same donors,” said Parker Thayer, an investigator at Capital Research Center, in an interview with the Daily Caller.
“The ‘pop-up’ public pressure campaign, where just a few donors pay dozens of ‘grassroots’ activist groups to give the appearance of broad public support for a particular issue, has long been a favored tactic of the Left’s wealthy special interests,” Thayer added.
The Sandler Foundation has also given significant amounts of money to the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and the American Constitution Society (ACS), both of which have called on Biden’s Justice Department to investigate Thomas for alleged violations of judicial ethics rules.
Other tax forms show that the left-wing nonprofit gave millions of dollars to The New Venture Fund and is part of a network of left-wing nonprofits managed by Arabella Advisors, founded by Eric Kessler, a former member of the Clinton Global Initiative.
The Sandler Foundation also gave a $500,000 grant to the New Venture Fund for Demand Justice, a radical group that calls for aggressive tactics against conservative judicial nominees.
Demand Justice has called for court packing and for removing Thomas from the Supreme Court.
Left-Wing News Outlet Now Targeting Justice Alito
ProPublica has now turned its attention to Justice Alito for his majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
The news organization published a critical story about Alito on June 20, using similar themes as their articles on Thomas.
The story claimed that Alito took a “luxury fishing vacation” in 2008 with billionaire Paul Singer, who later had cases before the Supreme Court and accused the justice of a conflict of interest.
Justice Alito immediately refuted the article’s claims in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.
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