Group Tied to Judicial Activist Spent $183 Million in a Year

“A deep-pocketed nonprofit organization founded by the conservative activist Leonard Leo gave away $182.7 million in a year’s time, a new tax filing shows, demonstrating how aggressively it has worked behind the scenes to prop up other groups and causes on the right,” the New York Times reports.

“The organization, Marble Freedom Trust, was formed in 2020 and was funded by a gift of more than $1.6 billion — an extraordinary windfall that resulted from a single donor’s contribution of 100 percent of a company’s shares before the company was sold, leaving Marble with the proceeds of the sale.”