There’s a big-money influence operation going on behind the scenes at the Supreme Court—just not the one you’ve heard about.
Motivated partisans keen to discredit the Supreme Court’s conservative justices pound the table and rail on about a “dark money” conspiracy that uses gifts and front groups to reshape the law to the benefit of big business and right-wing billionaires.
As others have pointed out, this account always has been overly simplistic, but it certainly suits the narrative of those who wish to delegitimize the high court to advance their liberal agenda.
Rarely mentioned, though, is the major influence that large law firms have on which cases the Supreme Court decides to hear, or any discussion about which side those firms support in the briefs they file before the high court.
A recently published study from professor Derek Muller of Notre…
