Meet the Arch-Fiend, Leonard Leo

Leonard Leo, vice-president of the Federalist Society, is the architect of the current Supreme Court. He deserves to be better known.

Paul Abrahams
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Feb 10, 2023

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Leonard Leo is one of the most evil people in American politics, yet people who don’t follow politics closely, often have never heard of him. There is a revealing profile of him at https://churchandstate.org.uk/2022/05/leonard-leo-opus-dei-and-the-radical-catholic-takeover-of-the-supreme-court/, and a more balanced yet sympathetic profile at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-conservative-pipeline-to-the-supreme-court. Leo is an enthusiastic member of Opus Dei and a well-financed power behind the scenes in alt-right politics. He is the architect of the conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

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Paul Abrahams
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Paul Abrahams is a retired computer scientist living in Deerfield, Massachusetts. President of ACM from 1986 to 1988, he now writes philosophical essays.