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Irish Independent RSS[09:38] ‘It’s your heart. I went: thank f*** for that’ – How Neil ‘Razor’ Ruddock saved himself after ballooning to 30 stone Neil “Razor” Ruddock is considering a question about whether he might be able to fit into today’s hyper-athletic football world, with its fitness data and dietary requirements, when he breaks into a characteristic guffaw. <a href="https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/its-your-heart-i-went-thank-f-for-that-how-neil-razor-ruddock-saved-himself-after-ballooning-to-30-stone/a293868174.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/its-your-heart-i-went-thank-f-for-that-how-neil-razor-ruddock-saved-himself-after-ballooning-to-30-stone/a293868174.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Razor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Razor</a>” <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Ruddock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ruddock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/today" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#today</a>

Chuck DarwinBacked by a cabal of wealthy conservative patrons like industrialist <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Koch</a>, banker <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Richard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scaife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scaife</a>, and the devout Catholic entrepreneur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Frank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Frank</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hanna</a>, the Federalist Society under Leo became a breeding ground for conservative judges who were recruited at law school, groomed through the society’s program of events and talks, and then bound together through their careers. “The key was to figure out how to develop what I call a ‘pipeline’ — basically, where you recruit students in law school, you get them through law school, they come out of law school, and then you find ways of continuing to involve them in legal policy,” Leo later explained. In 2005, the Federalist Society began openly advocating for <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#John</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roberts</a> — a former member — to be nominated to fill a vacant seat at the Supreme Court, the first time it had campaigned publicly for a particular candidate. A few months later, its sway had grown so much that it torpedoed President George W. Bush’s own preferred candidate for another vacant seat on the Supreme Court — <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harriet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harriet</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miers</a>, a judge and close friend of the president who wasn’t a member of the Federalist Society — and pressured him to nominate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Samuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Samuel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alito</a>, one of its members, in her place. Leo worked closely with the "Judicial Confirmation Network", a new nonprofit organization set up using funds from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arkley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arkley</a>, a California businessman known as the “foreclosure king,” who had made billions buying up mortgages of people in financial difficulties. The idea for <a href="https://c.im/tags/JCN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JCN</a> had been hatched at a dinner in Washington attended by Leo and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia shortly after Bush’s reelection in late 2004. JCN spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on radio and online advertisement to shape public opinion. It was run by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neil</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ann</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Corkery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corkery</a>, a couple who had been members of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Opus</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dei</a> since at least the eighties. Neil had been a critical figure in getting a new residence for male, celibate members of the Catholic movement built in Reston, Virginia. “Opus Dei members preach their faith through their work as well as the friendships they develop,” Ann explained. She and her husband would later preach their faith by becoming central figures in a series of nonprofits that would channel dark money for Leo’s efforts.

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