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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/
The Enlightenment is often associated with its political revolutions and ideals, especially the French Revolution of 1789. The energy created and expressed by the intellectual foment of Enlightenment thinkers contributes to the growing wave of social unrest in France in the eighteenth century.
The social unrest comes to a head in the violent political upheaval which sweeps away the traditionally and hierarchically structured ancien régime(the monarchy, the privileges of the nobility, the political power of the Catholic Church).
The French revolutionaries meant to establish in place of the ancien régime a new reason-based order instituting the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality.
…enlightenment with the process of undertaking to think for oneself, to employ and rely on one’s own intellectual capacities in determining what to believe and how to act.
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Clarence Thomas did not disclose real estate deal with GOP mega donor
Crow indicated he believed the property to be of historical value, given that the justice grew up there.
By Ben Whedon Updated: April 13, 2023 - 10:35pm
Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly failed to disclose a 2014 real estate deal with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
The billionaire then began making improvements to the home, where Thomas's mother was living. Crow indicated he believed the property to be of historical value, given that the justice grew up there.
"My intention is to one day create a public museum at the Thomas home dedicated to telling the story of our nation’s second black Supreme Court Justice," he said in a statement. "I approached the Thomas family about my desire to maintain this historic site so future generations could learn about the inspiring life of one of our greatest Americans."
Thomas's mother continued to live in the home until at least 2020.
News of the undisclosed sales of the Georgia properties follows reports from ProPublica that Thomas and his wife frequently went on vacations with Crow at the billionaire's expense. Thomas has insisted he was not required to report the trips.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/clarence-thomas-did-not-disclose-real-estate-deal-gop-megadonor
Who is Harlan Crow?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Crow
Harlan Rogers Crow (born 1949) is an American real estate developer. Born in Dallas, Texas, he is the chairman (and former CEO) of Crow Holdings, which was founded by his father, Trammell Crow. He is a leading donor to Republican and conservative causes.Crow became the subject of controversy in 2023 relating to his gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Early life Harlan Crow was born in Dallas, the third son of Margaret Doggett Crow and real estate developer Trammell Crow. He has four brothers and one sister. He attended high school at the Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Virginia.[1] He later attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, before he transferred to the University of Texas where he received a BBA.
Career He worked as a leasing agent for Trammell Crow Houston Industrial from 1974 to 1978 and managed the Dallas Office Building development operations of Trammell Crow Company from 1978 to 1986. He then served as President of the Wyndham Hotel Company from 1986 to 1988. He assumed responsibility for Crow Holdings in 1988,[2] doing so during a downturn in the company's finances. Crow diversified the company and took on more property management business, revitalizing the company.[3] He currently serves as chairman[2] and was formerly its chief executive officer.[4]
Political activities He is a member of the founding committee of the 501(c)4 organization Club for Growth, and has served on the board of the American Enterprise Institute since 1996.[5][6][7] He has donated almost $5 million to Republican campaigns and conservative groups. Crow is a member of the all-male Bohemian Club, and as early as 1997 he had hosted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a guest at the group's annual Bohemian Grove summer gathering,[8][9] having met Thomas in the mid-1990s.[3] He is also a friend and former business partner of the publisher Wick Allison.[10]
Crow donated $500,000 toward publicity campaigns for President George W. Bush's nominees for the Supreme Court.[3] In 2009, Crow mounted an unsuccessful multimillion-dollar campaign to block the establishment of a publicly owned convention hotel in Dallas.[11] According to Politico, that same year, he provided $500,000 to Liberty Central, which was established by Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Thomas.[12] Crow declined to comment on whether he was the anonymous donor in question, telling The New York Times, "I don't disclose what I'm not required to disclose."[13]
Undisclosed gifts allegations
In 2023, ProPublica reported that Crow has given several gifts to Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, including a $19,000 Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass. Crow gave Thomas a portrait of the justice and his wife, according to the painter, Sharif Tarabay. Tax filings show that Crow's foundation also gave $105,000 to the Yale Law School, Thomas's alma mater, for the "Justice Thomas Portrait Fund". Justice Thomas has accepted numerous week-long luxury trips, including island-hopping on Crow's superyacht, international and domestic private jet travel, and private resort stays.[14]
Under rules that went into effect on March 14, 2023, justices must disclose many forms of gifts they receive; but exceptions exist if a gift of food, lodging, or entertainment is deemed "personal in nature" and the hospitality has been directly offered by an individual who has a personal relationship to the government official in question.[15] The new rules do however require disclosure of stays at commercial properties as well as private jet travel.[16]
Legal experts cited by ProPublica say that Thomas did not disclose the gifts, violating a financial disclosure law and ethical norms for judges.[14][17] According to Crow, he has "never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue".[3] Democratic lawmakers reacted to the revelations by demanding Thomas' resignation and calling for an investigation.[16]On April 13, 2023, ProPublica reported that Crow had quietly paid Thomas for property occupied by Thomas's mother's home, despite law requiring disclosure of property sales by public officials.[18]Crow said he bought the property with the intent of later turning the home into a public museum dedicated to Thomas. Allegations have risen that Crow has been "subsidizing the lifestyle of Thomas and his wife" as Thomas continued to support conservative causes on the Supreme Court.[19]
Art and memorabilia collections'Crow's Dallas residence is home to an extensive collection of Nazi memorabilia, including two paintings by Adolf Hitler and a signed copy of Mein Kampf.[20][21][22]
Crow's backyard garden is home to at least 20 statues of authoritarian leaders and Communist icons, including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong, Karl Marx, Hosni Mubarak, Josip Broz Tito, Nicolae Ceausescu, Walter Ulbricht, Gavrilo Princip, Bela Kun, and Che Guevara.[23][24][25]
Crow acquired these former public monuments after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.[26] According to Crow, he collects such memorabilia because he "hates communism and fascism".
Who is Leonard Leo?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo
Leonard Anthony Leo (born 1965) is an American lawyer and conservative legal activist.
He was the longtime vice president of the Federalist Society and is currently, along withSteven Calabresi, the co-chairman of the organization's board of directors.
Leo has been instrumental in building a network of influential conservative legal groups funded mostly by anonymous donors, including The 85 Fund and Concord Fund,
which serve as funding hubs for affiliated political nonprofits.[1]
He assistedClarence Thomasin his Supreme Court confirmation hearings and led campaigns to support the nominations ofJohn Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
Leonard Anthony Leo[2] was born on Long Island, New York, in 1965, and raised in suburban New Jersey. His grandfather, an Italian immigrant, was a vice president of Brooks Brothers.[3][4]
He grew up in a family of practicing Catholics.[3]
His father died when Leo was in preschool. His mother remarried an engineer when he was five years old, and the family moved to New Jersey, where he spent most of his childhood.[3]
Leo attended Cornell University,[4] graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1986, and working as an intern in the office of Senator Orrin Hatch.[3]
Leo completed a J.D. degree at Cornell Law School in 1989, then clerked for federal judge A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[3][4][5]
Judicial nomination work
While studying law at Cornell, Leo founded a student chapter of the Federalist Society in 1989, and subsequently went to work for the Society in 1991 in Washington, D.C.[3]
He met Clarence Thomas while clerking in the Appeals Court, and the two became close friends.
Leo delayed his start at the Federalist Society to assist Thomas in his Supreme Court confirmation hearings.[4]
Leo served at the Federalist Society in various capacities for more than 25 years.
In 2019, The Washington Post reported that the Federalist Society had paid Leo an annual salary of more than $400,000 for a number of years.[4]
Bush administration
Leo took leaves of absence from the Federalist Society to assist the Bush administration's judicial nomination and confirmation efforts;
this included the confirmations of Miguel Estrada to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as well as the confirmations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court.[4][6][7]
Trump administration
In 2017, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote that Leo was"responsible, to a considerable extent, for one third of the justices on the Supreme Court".[8]
The Washington Post would later write that "few people outside government have more influence over judicial appointments now than Leo."[4]
Nomination of Neil Gorsuch
In 2016, Leo worked with Senate Majority LeaderMitch McConnellto block President Barack Obama's replacement appointee,Merrick Garland; Leo's nonprofit, the Judicial Crisis Network reported that it spent more than $7 million to prevent Garland's confirmation.[9]
After Donald Trump's election, The New York Times described Leo as playing a "critical role" in reshaping the judiciary through Trump's Supreme Court nominees,
first contacting then appellate-judge Neil Gorsuch about potentially nominating him to the vacancy created by Scalia's death.[10][11]
Leo's CRC Advisors coordinated "a months-long media campaign" in support of Gorsuch's nomination, including "opinion essays, contributing 5,000 quotes to news stories, scheduling pundit appearances on television,"
and television and radio advertisements.[9][4][12] Between 2014 and 2017, Leo-affiliated entities raised over $250 million from donors includingCharles Koch and Rebekah Mercer.[13][4][14]
Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh
In 2018, Politico reported that Leo had personally lobbied for Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the Supreme Court seat vacated by Anthony Kennedy, raising upward of $15 million in support of his confirmation.[15]
The Judicial Crisis Network ran television and radio advertisements supporting Kavanaugh's nomination, and CRC advisors "hype[d] a theory that Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation—that when they were both in high school,
Kavanaugh pushed her on a bed and tried to remove her clothing—was actually a case of mistaken identity".[15]
Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett
In a 2018 interview, when asked about a possible vacancy on the Supreme Court during an election year, Leo stated that "If a vacancy occurs in 2020,
the vacancy needs to remain open until a president is elected and inaugurated and can pick.
That's my position, period." Leo said he would advise Trump not to act on an election year Supreme Court vacancy, saying he had never asked Trump about the possible scenario,
but that it was Leo's opinion that he should not act on a 2020 Supreme Court vacancy, should it arise.[16]
After the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported that Leo was involved in the selection process for Ginsburg's replacement,
ultimately resulting in the appointment ofAmy Coney Barrett.[17][18]
Conservative network building
Media outlets have described Leo as the "behind-the-scenes leader of a network of interlocking nonprofits that has raised and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to support conservative judges and causes".[19]
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse would describe Leo as operating a "dark money apparatus" that funneled anonymous donations from various conservative activists through affiliated 501(c)4 organizations,
which Whitehouse characterized as "front groups".[20]
Such groups include theJudicial Education Project;[21] the Concord Fund;[22] the Marble Freedom Trust;[23] and the Rule of Law Trust, among others.[24]
The Marble Freedom Trust received a $1.6 billion donation from Illinois businessmanBarre Seid, described as "the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history".[23][25]
An October 2022 article by Kenneth P. Vogel in The New York Times detailed how Leo, who had been best known for his role in conservative judicial appointments, developed a larger coalition on the right.
In January 2020, Leo announced that he would be leaving his position as vice president at theFederalist Societyto start a new group,CRC Advisors, a conservative political consulting firm.[26][27]
Leo remained in his role as co-chairman of the Federalist Society's board of directors.[27]
Vogel wrote that Leo had built "one of the best-funded and most sophisticated operations in American politics, giving him extraordinary influence as he pushes a broad array of hot-button conservative causes
and seeks to counter what he sees as an increasing leftward tilt in society."[28]
In 2023, ProPublica described Leo's activism, namely through the Teneo Network, as focusing on ""culture war" issues, such as "'woke-ism' in corporations and education, 'one-sided journalism' and 'entertainment
that’s really corrupting our youth,'" to "'roll back' liberal influence in Wall Street and Silicon Valley."[29] The Teneo Network consists of various loosely affiliated non-profit and for-profit entities
which spent nearly $504 million between mid-2015 and 2021; two for-profit firms Leo at least partly controls, BH Group and CRC Advisors, are compensated by funding hubs in his network, The 85 Fund and the Concord Fund.[28][1]
In 2011 and 2012, Leo arranged for Liberty Consulting, owned by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to be paid $80,000 by The Polling Company,
owned byKellyanne Conwayand billed through theJudicial Education Project, which has filed amicus briefs in several high-profile Supreme Court cases.[30]
Leo directed Conway not to mention Ginni Thomasin paperwork, telling The Washington Post, "The Polling Company, along with Ginni Thomas's help, has been an invaluable resource for gauging public attitudes," and that "Knowing how disrespectful, malicious and gossipy people can be, I have always tried to protect the privacy of Justice Thomas and Ginni."[19]
In June 2023, ProPublica reported that Leo helped organize and attended a fishing trip withJustice Samuel Alito and businessman Paul Singer, whose firms later were parties to litigation before the Supreme Court.[31]