Democracy dies when money knocks on the door
Dark money is pouring into the US political arena as the 2022 midterm elections approach. According to The New York Times, Barre Seid, a secretive electronics magnate, has donated a record $1.65 billion to a new conservative nonprofit led by the Co-Chairman of the Federalist Society Leonard Leo, an activist who has used his connections to Republican donors and politicians to help engineer the conservative dominance of the Supreme Court and to finance manipulation over abortion rights, voting rules and climate change policy. As CNN reports, this is the largest single contribution ever made to a...