The right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court by hand-picked ideologues — who are now on the cusp of overturning Roe v. Wade — was a carefully orchestrated effort funded by a flood of “dark money.”<\/p>\n
In just the last 8 years, investigators have identified at least $580 million of those hidden funds, channeled through a tangled network of right-wing groups. But even more disturbing is what we don’t know: where these funds come from, whose interests both foreign and domestic they represent, and how they all connect. And it isn’t just the judiciary: dark money is also flooding into efforts to stop Biden’s nominations and win American elections.<\/p>\n
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has been the Senate’s most dogged pursuer of uncovering what is happening, and he joins us to explain what he is seeing.<\/p>\n