Influential activist #LeonardLeo helped fund media campaign #lionizing #ClarenceThomas. Public relations campaign shows how he has continued to exert influence in support of #rightleaning #justices aftr helping them secure #lifetime appointments. It adds to emerging portrait of Leo as behind-the-scenes #benefactor, defending justices from public criticism and exalting their jurisprudence while tending to personal matters including private travel and a spouse’s employment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/07/20/leonard-leo-clarence-thomas-paoletta/