Washington, DC, Legal professional Basic Brian Schwalb has launched a baseless, politically pushed investigation into Federalist Society co-chairman Leonard Leo, Politico reported.
Together with co-chairing the conservative Federalist Society, Leo serves as chairman of CRC Advisors, a conservative media, political, and coverage consulting agency. As a number one determine in selling the conservative judicial philosophy of originalism, Leo was influential within the nominations of all three of former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court docket justices.
Nevertheless, Leo is being investigated over his ties to a collection of nonprofit organizations he’s affiliated with, Politico reported, citing an individual with direct data of the probe. Schwalb’s investigation comes after the leftwing Middle for Accountability, created and funded by the goliath leftwing darkish cash group Arabella Advisors, filed a criticism in opposition to Leo.
Legal professional Brian Schwalb is working for the D.C. Legal professional Basic’s workplace. (Astrid Riecken For The Washington Submit by way of Getty Photographs)
The Middle for Accountability’s criticism Leo requested the D.C. Legal professional Basic and the IRS look into whether or not Leo violated legal guidelines in reference to The 85 Fund, a nonprofit Leo is aligned with that’s registered as a tax-exempt charity.
Nevertheless, even Politico admitted the Middle for Accountability’s criticism “doesn’t present any direct proof of its accusations.”
Legal professional Basic Schwalb is seemingly overstepping his jurisdiction with this investigation into Leo as neither he nor any of the organizations related to him are primarily based within the nation’s capital.
Schwalb involves the D.C. Legal professional Basic’s workplace after serving as a trial legal professional for the Division of Justice below former President Invoice Clinton’s administration. Schwalb additionally served because the authorized director for the leftwing Alliance for Justice and has been a strident critic of the conservative authorized motion for almost 20 years.
Schwalb’s efforts are simply the most recent try by leftwingers to go after Leo and assault the credibility of the conservative Supreme Court docket.
For instance, Senate Democrats lately demanded Leo present details about his interplay with Supreme Court docket justices, a transfer his attorneys mentioned violated his First Modification and equal safety rights.
Authorities watchdog Accountable.US locations posters across the Federalist Society constructing to spotlight information of D.C. Legal professional Basic Brian Schwalb’s investigation into Leonard Leo’s nonprofit community on August 24, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Paul Morigi/Getty Photographs for Accountable.US)
As Breitbart Information reported:
Partisan Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have been pursuing conservative Supreme Court docket justices – however solely conservative justices – for years. However now Democrats are concentrating on conservative non-public residents, with Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) main the cost.
Within the newest salvo, Durbin and Whitehouse fired off a letter on July 11 to Leo, requesting that he present the committee with details about his interactions with Supreme Court docket justices.
Legal professionals representing Leo responded with a letter of their very own on July 25, explaining that they “imagine that your inquiry exceeds the bounds positioned by the Structure on the Committee’s investigative authority.”
Leftists have additionally tried to have interaction in “reverse court-packing,” a transfer to attempt to power conservative justices off sure key instances to form their final result, as Breitbart Information’s Senior Authorized Contributor Ken Klukowski detailed.
However Schwalb’s foray into lawfare enters new territory with this investigation because the intimidating and coercive powers of regulation enforcement are reportedly being directed in opposition to a personal citizen due to that citizen’s beliefs, however that these views are protected by the First Modification.
Jordan Dixon-Hamilton is a reporter for Breitbart Information. Write to him at jdixonhamilton@breitbart.com or observe him on Twitter.