“One unnamed donor gave $17 million to the Leo-affiliated Judicial Crisis Network to block the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and to support Gorsuch; then a donor — perhaps the same one — gave another $17 million to prop up Kavanaugh.”
Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
Senator. an op-ed. Claim dated 6 Sep 2019.
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Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. (Senator) made this claim around 6 September 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 September 2019, 5 days later. Its rating was “True”.
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