Salon.com > Law Enforcement Alliance of America http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 NRA uses shady law enforcement group to target judges http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/nra_uses_shady_law_enforcement_group_to_target_judges/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/nra_uses_shady_law_enforcement_group_to_target_judges/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13201287 With a boatload of funding from the NRA, the Law Enforcement Alliance of America has been working at the state level to push pro-gun judicial candidates and prosecutors.

The LEAA is a conservative nonprofit that on its website purports to advocate for law enforcement and crime victims, and has, among other things, brought several lawsuits opposing federal background checks for gun buyers.

Though the LEAA is not required to reveal its donors, as Bloomberg News writes, its efforts are heavily funded by the NRA:

The group’s activities at the state level promoting judicial candidates are legal and not unusual in U.S. politics. What has been less known is the extent of its financial backing from the NRA, the nation’s leading gun-rights lobby.

The LEAA got at least $2 million from the NRA from 2004 to 2010, according to a report based on tax records to be released today by the Washington-based Center for American Progress. During many of those years, NRA donations accounted for about a quarter of LEAA’s funds, and in 2009 NRA money represented at least a third of the group’s revenue, according to the report.

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