{"id":28327,"date":"2023-09-08T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T03:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28327"},"modified":"2023-09-08T20:38:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T03:38:48","slug":"the-scheme-speech-1-the-powell-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/08\/the-scheme-speech-1-the-powell-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scheme Speech 1: The Powell Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Scheme Speech 1: The Powell Report\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mAplGu1RxPg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SenatorWhitehouse\">Senator Sheldon Whitehouse<\/a> May 25, 2021 | Sen. Whitehouse delivers his first speech on court capture.  Scheme Speech 1 out of 21 on YouTube.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1653951059i\/60199845.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6485944.Sheldon_Whitehouse\">Sheldon Whitehouse<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5820150.Jennifer_Mueller\">Jennifer Mueller<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/60199845-the-scheme#CommunityReviews\"><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/60199845-the-scheme#CommunityReviews\"><\/a>\u201cA damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee\u201d ( Kirkus Reviews ) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court<br><br>\u201cThere\u2019s no senator I can think of who\u2019s done more sleuthing to figure out the money trail in American politics, particularly as it affects the courts.\u201d\u2014Jane Mayer, author of the national bestseller Dark Money<br><br>As the story of Supreme Court malfeasance and ethics violations repeatedly makes front-page news, the paperback version of The Scheme comes at a time of crisis for the American judiciary.<br><br>Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, whom Senator Elizabeth Warren calls a \u201ca powerful voice in defending our American democracy against the relentless, pervasive\u2014and often hidden\u2014power of corporate special interests,\u201d here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the United States Supreme Court. Whitehouse chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups, helped by the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, employing the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, and with the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance their anti-government agenda.<br><br>Now available in an affordable paperback edition with a new preface addressing the Reverend Schenck disclosures about politicking the justices and Justice Thomas\u2019s recently disclosed conflicts of interest, The Scheme offers what Kirkus Reviews calls \u201ca maddening indictment of a corrupt and corrupted judiciary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Sheldon Whitehouse May 25, 2021 | Sen. Whitehouse delivers his first speech on court capture. Scheme Speech 1 out of 21 on YouTube.com. 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