Your Weekend Getaway Packet

If you are writing about CA ballot measures, take a look at spending:

• https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/cal-access-resources/measure-contributions/2018-ballot-measure-contribution-totals/ 
• https://ballotpedia.org/California_2018_ballot_propositions

Today, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) discussed course themes.

“Setting aside this botch, we go back to a Supreme Court that is so far too often dancing to the tune of a handful of big Republican special interests,” Whitehouse said. Big Republican special interests funding the Federalist Society that is now picking Supreme Court nominees. Big Republican special interests using the unlimited dark money power the Supreme Court gave them to mount TV ad campaigns for Supreme Court nominees.”

“And big Republican special interests on the winning side of those with 70, 5-4 partisan victories,” he continued. “The fruits of their political labor. People are catching on. The record of this is undeniable, and as I said, it will be a disaster for the court court.”

As we discussed this week, Whitehouse's questioning a year ago helped sink a nominee to the Council on Environmental Quality:


And finally, the scene that Matthew mentioned on Thursday: