Nonprofit organizations managed by the liberal "dark money" consulting firm Arabella Advisors gave millions of dollars to "nonpartisan" Supreme Court watchdogs, new documents show, after a campaign was launched earlier this year targeting conservative Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito for not fully disclosing their finances.
Former Clinton appointee Eric Kessler founded Arabella Advisors in 2005, and its subsidiaries include the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Hopewell Fund, the New Venture Fund, the Windward Fund and the North Fund.
Common Cause, which has heavily criticized Alito and Thomas and is pushing the Supreme Court to pass a code of conduct, received nearly half a million dollars in 2022 from three of the Arabella Advisors subsidiaries, according to tax forms, The Washington Examiner reported Monday.
In addition to the $490,250 given to Common Cause by the three subsidiaries last year, the group's charity arm, Common Cause Education Fund, received $780,500 from Arabella affiliates last year.