Sheldon Whitehouse on the captured court

[CousinIT]

UNROLLED twitter thread:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1537222083519819776.html

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.

One reply to SH's tweets:

[crickets]

1. K&R for visibility.

[JudyM]

3. K&R

[czarjak]

4. Striving though?

[SharonAnn]

5. All this to establish American oligarchs in perpetuity

[rubbersole]

6. Yes.

And they might be there.

[calimary]

7. That is one amazing graphic!

Is this one of those “oh what a tangled web we weave” kind of things? Sure looks like it.

I think graphics like this are effective because of the conventional wisdom that a majority of Americans processes information visually. There’s a meaningful visual in all those Koch interconnections. It forms a picture, of sorts.

[denbot]

8. Kick for "Social Truth".