(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) An organization known as The Sandler Foundation, which founded ProPublica, recently launched attacks against Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
ProPublica received at least $40 million from the foundation since 2010, and took more from other groups linked to the Democrat dark-money web, according to Breitbart.
Along with several other money-funneling groups, ProPublica attempted to disenfranchise Justice Thomas via investigations into his relationship with wealthy real estate developer Harlan Crow.
The articles often quoted activists from groups receiving money from the Sandler Foundation. The Center for American Progress, the ACLU, Human Rights Watch and Sierra Club all received funding from the foundation.
The foundation also gave at least $7.5 million to the Campaign Legal Center since 2015, and $6 million to the American constitution Society since 2010. Both organizations supported reporting Justice Thomas to the Department of Justice after the news of his relationship with Crow made headlines.
The lawfare outfit wrote a letter to the DOJ asking it to investigate Thomas “for potential criminal and civil penalties” after he accepted an all-expenses paid trip from Crow. The Crow connection amounted to little but a smear job directed at a leading conservative voice on the high court.
ProPublica’s initial report on the matter quoted activists from CLC and ACS.
The Sandler Foundational also granted money to The New Venture Fund, which is part of a dark-money network managed by Soros-controlled Arabella Advisors.
A group known as Demand Justice, a subsidiary of the New Venture Fund that advocates for aggressive tactics against Republican judicial nominees, took $500,000.
The group supported court-packing and invasive investigations, particularly into Justice Thomas. The deputy chief counsel, Katie O’Connor, called for “immediate ethics reforms” in the court after the story about Thomas and Crow broke.
“It is no coincidence that several organizations smearing Justice Thomas are funded generously by many of the same donors,” Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, said. “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.”
Justice Alito appears to be ProPublica’s next target.
Soros-backed investigators published a story about Alito taking a “luxury fishing vacation” with GOP billionaire Paul Singer in 2008. The story alleged that Alito accepted the gift under unethical circumstances. Justice Alito roundly refuted the claims.
Several of the groups that received money from the Sandler Foundation called for investigations into Alito’s purported “unethical behavior.”
