The forces that reshaped the Supreme Court are quietly fomenting a revolution in the state courts. "We Don't Talk About Leonard" is a three-part investigative series from On the Media and @ProPublica that explores how one man built a money, influence and power machine to fuel a conservative takeover of America’s courts.

In the second episode, Leonard Leo realized that in order to generate conservative rulings, the Supreme Court needs the right kind of cases. ProPublica reporters Andrea Bernstein, Andy Kroll and Ilya Marritz investigate the machine that Leo built across the country to bring cases to the Supreme Court and fill vacant judgeships, and the web of nonprofits he’s created through which to funnel dark money into judicial races.

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