There aren’t many activists who have directly influenced the course of the United States more than Leonard Leo . The right-wing money man and longtime Federalist Society honcho effectively built the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, feeding Donald Trump the justices who would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade and grant the chronically corrupt president immunity from prosecution.
Leo and his dark money network have continued to spend millions to advance his conservative agenda. He tried to get Will Scharf — who just so happened to represent Trump in his immunity case before the Supreme Court — elected attorney general of Missouri last year. Scharf lost in the Republican primary to Andrew Bailey, whom Trump tapped this week to become a deputy director at the FBI. Scharf is also now a