Big Business Favored by Right-Wing Supreme Court

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Big business wasn’t the public focus of this year’s just-completed U.S. Supreme Court term. But the corporate lobby’s number one representative nonetheless retained the outsized influence on U.S. jurisprudence that has come to characterize the Roberts Court, winning more than two-thirds of its cases even by conservative estimates. The Chamber of Commerce won 11 of the 16 cases in which it filed briefs, according to data compiled by the Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC). This 69 percent win rate marks the continued success of the lobbying shop that dubs itself the world’s largest business organization in shifting Supreme Court precedent to increasingly favor big business.
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Big business wasn’t the public focus of this year’s just-completed U.S. Supreme Court term. But the corporate lobby’s number one representative nonetheless retained the outsized influence on U.S. jurisprudence that has come to characterize the Roberts Court, winning more than two-thirds of its cases even by conservative estimates. The Chamber of Commerce won 11 of the 16 cases in which it filed briefs, according to data compiled by the Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC). This 69 percent win rate marks the continued success of the lobbying shop that dubs itself the world’s largest business organization in shifting Supreme Court precedent to increasingly favor big business.

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