Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I Behind the Scheme
Chapter 1 Climate Denial, Regulatory Capture, and Covert Ops 13
Chapter 2 Of Courts and Corporations 19
Part II Motive
Chapter 3 Of Social Gains and Election Losses 29
Part III Means
Chapter 4 The Plan: The Powell Memo 39
Chapter 5 Building the Influence Machine: Campaign Finance Cases 44
Part IV Co-conspirators
Chapter 6 Mercenaries, Fringe Groups, and Lobbyists 61
Chapter 7 The Front Group Archipelago 65
Chapter 8 Super PACs, 501(c)s, and Corporate Shareholders 74
Part V Method
Chapter 9 The Federalist Society Turnstile 81
Chapter 10 The Doctrine Factory and Casting Call 93
Chapter 11 The Senate Conveyor Belt 103
Chapter 12 Plaintiffs of Convenience and Friends of the Court 121
Part VI A Susceptible Victim: The Compromised Court
Chapter 13 Ripe for Capture 137
Part VII Payday: The Captured Court
Chapter 14 The 80 (aka The Prize) 155
Chapter 15 Cases Controlling the Political Process 160
Chapter 16 Cases Protecting Corporate Interests 172
Chapter 17 Cases Restricting Civil Rights 181
Chapter 18 Cases Advancing a Far-Right Social Agenda 185
Part VIII Rebuttal
Chapter 19 So-Called Conservative Principles 193
Chapter 20 The Shadow Docket 213
Part IX Closing Argument
Chapter 21 The Scheme 219
Acknowledgments 227
Appendix A "The 80": Decisions by the Roberts Five, 2005-2019 229
Appendix B Amicus Briefs Filed by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 243
Appendix C Whitehouse Brief Appendix: Overlapping Amici Funders in Seila Law 247
Appendix D Wharton Analysis of Corporate Funding Disclosure 249
Notes 251
Index 275