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Dark money pushing Kavanaugh nomination, and savaging people who testify against him

October 3, 2018

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Series of Tweets from Mike Farb, discussing the dark money campaign to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.

One more ugly piece of an ugly puzzle.

Farb is one of the geniuses behind UnhackTheVote.com, a project dedicated to ballot security and increasing protections for democracy in our elections.

Who appoints our Supreme Court? The President?

Or a Catholic fundamentalist who controls a network of right-wing groups funded by dark money?

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

A few days ago our colleague @AltDIA made an interesting discovery. An apparent botnet of Twitter accounts tweeting identical messages: "As a Hoosier, I'm calling on @SenDonnelly to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court."

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

We thought this was unusual, and somewhat disturbing. A Twitter botnet lobbying for a Supreme Court nominee? Is this really what our Democracy has com to? We had a closer look at the image in these tweets. JCN? Judicial Crisis Network? Who are these people? pic.twitter.com/YD4oiEi2uA

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

On July 9th these sites were all in "maintenance" mode:https://t.co/fkWDUL2UYl for Raymond Kethledgehttps://t.co/sJFDtC4hNe for Amy Coney Barretthttps://t.co/YvoVnpULer for Thomas Hardimanhttps://t.co/mh5g7BNlgy for Brett Kavanaugh

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

Maguire’s Tweet:

Within minutes of Trump's announcement of Neil Gorsuch's nomination last year, the dark money group Judicial Crisis Network launched a site called https://t.co/5awuP4LNQ6.

Looks like someone has sites ready to go for tonight's announcement as well. pic.twitter.com/zqTgXuXjSM

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) July 9, 2018

Justice Kennedy announced his resignation on June 27. Did Judicial Crisis Network set up these domains and websites that quickly? How far in advance was this planned? We were curious, so we checked the dates of the domain registrations and hosting.

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

The Confirm Kavanaugh domain was purchased in February 2017. The Confirm Kethledge and Confirm Hardiman domains were purchased even earlier – in December 2016! Hosting was set up for those three domains in May of 2017. Confirm Barrett was purchased and hosted in November of 2017. pic.twitter.com/E4omCDqrs2

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

Who are the people behind Judicial Crisis Network? Whose money are the spending in their effort to swing our Supreme Court to the far right?

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

Where did they get this kind of money? Mainly from a single anonymous donor. Someone donated nearly $18 million dollars to this organization. Who was it? No one knows. https://t.co/qknZW17cyO pic.twitter.com/5H5mRlrCrK

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

And who is calling the shots there? Who is buying those domains? Who is creating that short list of judicial nominees for our puppet president to "nominate"?

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

A Catholic fundamentalist who controls a network of right-wing groups funded by dark money. Leonard Leo is on leave from the Federalist Society to personally assist Trump in picking a replacement for Justice Kennedy. pic.twitter.com/09bkzHYutI

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

Is this the man we want to shape our future as a nation?

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

We are now in a country where a select few are making the decisions that affect all of us. There are no more rules. Not for them.

— MikeFarb (@mikefarb1) July 12, 2018

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