Conservative activist Leonard Leo received the largest political donation of all time last year — a total of $1.6 billion. Leo was well known for role in reshaping the Supreme Court. Lisa Desjardins talks with Andrea Bernstein to look at how he’s using this money. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

Leonard Leo has engineered a monumental judicial transformation in the United States—and done so without ever appearing on a ballot. As head of the Federalist Society since the 1990s, he turned a student group into a strategic “judicial pipeline,” hand-selecting judges who view government as a guardian of tradition, not of rights. Leo quietly influenced the federal bench long before the rise of #DonaldTrump: his playbook to overturn Roe v. Wade was drafted years in advance. Between 2017 and 2020