by Evan Vorpahl | Jul 25, 2026 | Billionaires, Campaign Finance, Charles Koch, Courts, Dark Money, far right, Federalist Society, Kansas, Koch Industries, Leonard Leo, News, state courts
The networks of two major players who helped capture the U.S. Supreme Court — anti-abortion lawyer Leonard Leo and oil billionaire Charles Koch — have also long targeted state courts to advance their regressive agenda. One of their tactics, influencing the way that state justices are selected nationwide, is being borne out in Kansas. On August 4, voters in Kansas will decide the fate of a…
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by Alyssa Bowen | Oct 25, 2025 | Abortion, Donald Trump, Federalist Society, Leonard Leo, medication abortion, mifepristone, News Analysis, Project 2025, Republican Attorneys General Association, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court
At the end of August, Texas and Florida’s attorneys general asked to join GOP attorneys general from Missouri, Idaho, and Kansas in a yearslong lawsuit targeting mifepristone — breathing new life into the litigation attacking the most widely used method of abortion in the United States. Earlier this year, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice asked the courts to dismiss the suit — not based on…
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