Captured: An Interview with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Prevail with Greg Olear

Oct 29, 2021•53 min•Ep. 35

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Episode description

Greg Olear interviews Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) on a wide range of topics, including: dark money, anonymous donors, regulatory capture, the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo, Mitch McConnell’s motives, amicae curiae, Citizens United, climate change legislation (or lack thereof), the loss of John McCain, expanding the court, Brett Kavanaugh, and the FBI’s botched tip line. Plus: A new cryptocurrency.

Follow Senator Whitehouse:

https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse

Watch his speeches on “The Scheme:”

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyg5hj7I21i1Aqcaym9TRFrpWjPN9_ms

His article in the Yale Law Review:

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/a-flood-of-judicial-lobbying-amicus-influence-and-funding-transparency

His piece in Salon on dark money:

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/14/justice-alito-complains-but-the-evidence-is-clear-this-was-built-by-dark-money/

Buy his book:

https://www.amazon.com/Captured-Corporate-Infiltration-American-Democracy/dp/1620974762

Make America Great Gatsby Again!

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-great-gatsby-four-sticks-press-centennial-edition/e701221776c88f86?ean=9798985931976&next=t