# How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/journalism-that-holds-power-to-account-4/
- Published: 2022-08-24T09:45:20-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Leonard Leo outside the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2017 confirmation hearing for Justice Neil Gorsuch. Photo credit: Mark Peterson / Redux. Article by Andrew Perez, The Lever, and Andy Kroll and Justin Elliott, ProPublica. ProPublica – August 22, 2022. This story was co-published with The Lever. In the largest known political advocacy donation in U.S. history, industrialist Barre Seid funded a new group run by Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, who guided Trump’s Supreme Court picks and helped end federal abortion rights. […] Click here to view original web page at www.propublica.org