Ethics

Supreme Court Vacancy = Conservative Cash Cow

By Ed Brayton

CQ Politics has an article on how Souter's retirement is firing up the conservative fundraising machine:

Few political battles energize movement conservatives quite like a Supreme Court nomination fight. And word that Justice David H. Souter plans to retire at the end of this session sent a jolt through the right-wing fundraising circuit late Thursday night.

"This is a nuclear weapon for the conservatives out there," said Dan Morgan, a veteran conservative fundraiser who founded Morgan, Meredith and Associates. "When you do fundraising, there's an emotional component in this and boy the emotion is there magnified times 100."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).