Right-wing donors spent millions on a Scheme to capture our Supreme Court. Now it’s payday, and the Scheme is out to destroy established precedent and dismantle American government. Thread ->
These donors need justices who will do what they ask, but they also need legal theories that enable justices to get around longstanding precedent. When you’re spending more than half a billion dollars on a Scheme, you can find solutions.
How do they do it? First, they spawn an array of legal think tanks & phony “institutes.” These are hothouses in which the deconstruction theories are grown; the factories where doctrines are crafted, reverse-engineered from the results the big donors want.
Then, they create an echo chamber of approval for their cultivated fringe ideas. The ideas get bounced around through other anonymously-funded affiliate groups, through law school clubs and conservative conferences - and ultimately to the Supreme Court.
These Scheme doctrines would hamstring federal agencies, undercut public health & safety, and open up our government to even greater corporate political influence. This is what’s at stake when we talk about the captured Court.
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