Viveca Novak

Viveca Novak edits OpenSecrets Blog at the Center for Responsive Politics. Previously, she was deputy director of FactCheck.org and a Washington correspondent for Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal. Her journalism awards include Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Wellspring Gives $6.6 Million to JCN

Shady

A secretive nonprofit that has given millions of dollars to conservative 501(c)(4) groups over the years sank more than $6.6 million into the Judicial Crisis Network in 2014.

Viveca Novak

Published Nov. 25, 2015

Building a Secret GOP Judicial Machine

Judicial Juggernaut

At first, The Judicial Crisis Network backed Bush nominees. Now the dark money group reaches deep into state capitals. Here’s how it grew.

Viveca Novak,

Peter Stone

Published Mar. 23, 2015