Sentences with phrase «conservative ideological groups»

Long served as counsel to the Judicial Crisis Network (back when it was the Judicial Confirmation Network) and worked closely with a number of conservative ideological groups to support George W. Bush's court nominees, and later, to oppose, President Obama's picks.

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And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to shore up the lies.

The USCC's Thomas Lynch has successfully defended the new American guidelines against an attempt by the conservative front to drive an ideological wedge between the USCC's work and the work from Cardinal Baum's group.

Other aspects of our news diet are out of whack, too: a nationally representative survey done in 2014 by the Pew Research Center found that conservatives are far more likely than other ideological groups to rely on a single outlet — Fox News — for political and government news coverage.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.