ProPublica and donors criticize conservative Supreme Court justices.
A Nonprofit News Outlet Funded by Left-Wing Organization Attacks Conservative Supreme Court Justices
ProPublica, a nonprofit news outlet, has been launching 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. What’s concerning is that the outlet has been receiving donations from the same groups that are actively campaigning for Justice Thomas to resign or be removed from the Court.
The left-wing nonprofit accused of pouring millions into multiple groups attacking Thomas’ character is the Sandler Foundation. They are also 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. However, this same organization has also been funding dark-money groups that have been seeking to oust Thomas from the Court for years, aiming 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. The publication has deemed their relationship 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.
What’s interesting is that several of ProPublica’s top donors were exposed as major financial supporters of the left-wing groups attacking Thomas. These groups have been calling for an ethics investigation into his private life based on the series of articles over his finances.
The Sandler Foundation, the organization behind ProPublica, has also been involved in launching and funding other left-wing groups such as The Center for American Progress, the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, and Sierra Club, as stated on their 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 more than $7.5 million to the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) since 2015 and more than $6 million to the American Constitution Society (ACS) since 2010. Both organizations have called on Biden’s Justice Department to investigate Thomas for allegedly violating judicial ethics rules.
Other tax forms show that the left-wing nonprofit gave millions of dollars to The New Venture Fund since 2019. It 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 been actively calling for court packing and the removal of Thomas from the Supreme Court.
Left-Wing News Outlet Now Targeting Justice Alito
ProPublica has now turned its attention to Justice Alito. They published a critical story about him 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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