Meet Leonard Leo - Trump's most powerful weapon in his religious war on woke

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "Seidel, a lawyer and author of The American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom, describes Leo as the "spider at the centre of the web of the conservative legal movement", and said that when he was writing his book on the Supreme Court, one particular quote stuck out for him.
44% : We do know that he, along with the Koch brothers, for instance, put a ton of money behind some of the groups that are behind Project 2025" - referring to the political initiative to promote right-wing policies in order to reshape the federal government after Trump assumes the presidency.
24% : He crafted the list of potential justices Trump released during his 2016 presidential campaign, advising him on selecting Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett (who replaced the liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) for the Supreme Court.

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