Sheldon Whitehouse Schemes Speeches
These are Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's Senate speeches on the subject of the Supreme Court being captured by the right wing. He calls these speeches “The Scheme” and are about 20 minutes each. He leads off with the Powell Memo, and there's additional reading about it below.
4: A New Constitutional Right for Dark Money
6: The Judicial Crisis Network
10: Climate Obstruction and The Scheme
13: "Auditioning" for the Supreme Court
14: Attacking Roe
15: WV v. EPA
18: Leonard Leo’s $1.6 Billion Payday
19: “Operation Higher Court” and the Supreme Court Ethics Crisis
20: The Ethics-Free Zone Around The Supreme Court
21: “As Friends Do”
22: Justice Alito and the Polluter Page
23: Let's Say
24: The Justice Alito Complaint
26: The Judiciary Committee Votes for Subpoenas
27: The Myth of the Unelected Bureaucrat
29: Fake Facts and “Knight-Errantry” at the Supreme Court
30: An Update on the Captured Supreme Court
31: The Crooked Stick and the Supreme Court
33: The Undoing of the Modern Regulatory State
Additional reading
Bill Moyers: The Powell Memo: A Call-to-Arms for Corporations