NEW: Sen. Whitehouse and Rep. Johnson respond to yesterday's Supreme Court counsel's letter defendi

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7. Google "Sheldon Whitehouse scheme speeches"

There are a series of speeches Whitehouse made in the senate where he explains & argues against big money in politics & in picking judicial nominees.

‘THE SCHEME’: A SENATOR’S PLAN TO HIGHLIGHT RIGHTWING INFLUENCE ON THE SUPREME COURT

https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/in-the-news/the-scheme-a-senators-plan-to-highlight-rightwing-influence-on-the-supreme-court

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“The Scheme” is a series about the plot by rightwing donor interests to capture the supreme court and achieve through the institution’s power what they cannot through other branches of government.

For each speech Whitehouse, whose desk is on the back row, rises to his feet beside a mounted sign with the words “The scheme” superimposed on an image of the court’s exterior. He expounds on the decades-long roots of the masterplan, how it was watered by “dark money” and how it bore full fruit when President Donald Trump installed a six-justice rightwing majority on the court.

In an interview with the Guardian, Whitehouse, 66, explains why he has no faith in Trump’s three appointees – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – and acknowledges the embarrassment that Democrats were “sleeping sentries” as the threat unfolded.

But first, does it bother him that he is not playing to a full house, perhaps shouting into the void? “One gets used to it in the Senate,” he says phlegmatically, sitting in a meeting room at his Capitol Hill office adorned with framed photos of lighthouses and starry skies from Rhode Island, the tiny state that he represents.

Whitehouse is one of our best!