#Judicial-Capture
Events indexed under #Judicial-Capture — 104 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments; Gorsuch Exposes Government's Inability to Protect Native American Citizenship U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · D. John Sauer · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for 350,000 Haitians Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Appeals Blocked Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms, Claims Judges "Bent Over Backwards" to Rule Against Trump Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-04 | Senate Confirms Peterson to Alaska Federal Bench Despite Election Denial Aaron Christian Peterson · Senate Judiciary Committee · Donald Trump · Dan Sullivan | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Supreme Court to Hear Birthright Citizenship Challenge in April U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · American Civil Liberties Union · D. John Sauer | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Presidential Removal Power in Trump v Cook U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · Brett Kavanaugh · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-20 | Supreme Court Issues Three Unanimous Rulings on Federal Procedures U.S. Supreme Court · Amy Coney Barrett · Samuel Alito | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Supreme Court Hears Transgender Sports Ban Cases, Signals Support for Restrictions U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · Samuel Alito · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-09 | Supreme Court Narrows AEDPA Bar on Federal Habeas Claims U.S. Supreme Court · Sonia Sotomayor · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Bondi Orders FBI to Compile "Domestic Terrorism" List Targeting Political Beliefs Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Donald Trump · Kash Patel · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-11-06 | Supreme Court Issues Emergency Stay Allowing Trump Administration to Withhold $4 Billion in SNAP Food Benefits U.S. Supreme Court · Ketanji Brown Jackson · John McConnell · USDA | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Senate Confirms Jennifer Mascott to Third Circuit Court of Appeals Jennifer Mascott · U.S. Senate · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · Donald Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | Supreme Court Uses Emergency Docket to Expand Presidential Power U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · Conservative Supreme Court Majority | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Heritage Foundation Publishes 800-Page Constitutional Guide as Trump's Judicial Roadmap Heritage Foundation · Justice Samuel Alito · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | reported | |
| 2025-08-20 | US Imposes Unprecedented Sanctions on Four International Criminal Court Officials Kimberly Prost · Nicolas Guillou · Nazhat Shameem Khan · Mame Mandiaye Niang · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-06 | DC Circuit Rules 2-1 That Trump Can Bar AP from White House Events U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · Judge Neomi Rao · Judge Gregory Katsas · Judge Cornelia Pillard · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-16 | Elon Musk Donates to GOP Lawmakers Targeting Judicial Oversight Elon Musk · Chuck Grassley · Eli Crane · Lauren Boebert · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-30 | Musk Distributes $1 Million Payments in Controversial Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Intervention Elon Musk · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · Nicholas Jacobs · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-20 | Musk PAC Offers $100 to Wisconsin Voters for 'Anti-Activist Judge' Petition Elon Musk · Josh Kaul · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-19 | Musk Calls for Judicial Impeachment Wave, Supports GOP Lawmakers Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Republican Congressional Caucus | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events Clarence Thomas · Koch Network · Charles Koch · David Koch · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness 6-3 - Protects Debt System Against Democratic Relief John Roberts · Joe Biden · Elena Kagan | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-20 | ProPublica Reveals Samuel Alito's Undisclosed Luxury Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Elliott Investment Management · Leonard Leo · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-06 | ProPublica Exposes Two Decades of Undisclosed Thomas-Crow Gifts ProPublica · Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-05 | Kendal Price Files Whistleblower Complaint on Jane Roberts Commission Income and Chief Justice Non-Recusal Kendal Price · Jane Sullivan Roberts · John Roberts · Dick Durbin · +3 | ||
| 2022-06-30 | Supreme Court Establishes Major Questions Doctrine in West Virginia v. EPA, Limiting Regulatory Power U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | Barre Seid Donates $1.6 Billion to Leonard Leo Dark Money Network Barre Seid · Leonard Leo · Marble Freedom Trust | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-01 | Clarence Thomas Takes 8-Day Indonesia Yacht Trip with Harlan Crow Clarence Thomas · Virginia Thomas · Harlan Crow | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-27 | Janus v. AFSCME - Supreme Court Strikes Down Public Sector Union Fees, Targeting Teachers' Unions Justice Samuel Alito · Justice Neil Gorsuch · National Right to Work Foundation · State Policy Network · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-21 | Epic Systems v. Lewis: Supreme Court Allows Mandatory Arbitration Blocking Class Action Labor Claims U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Federalist Society · Corporate employers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-16 | Neil Gorsuch Sells Property to Law Firm CEO Days After Supreme Court Confirmation Neil Gorsuch · Brian Duffy · Greenberg Traurig | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-31 | Federalist Society Captures Federal Judiciary with $250M Dark Money Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Donald Trump · Judicial Crisis Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-18 | Trump Promises All Supreme Court Picks Will Come From Federalist Society Donald Trump · Leonard Leo · Don McGahn · Neil Gorsuch · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2015-01-01 | Eastern District of Texas Patent Troll Haven: Judge Rodney Gilstrap Handles 25% of All U.S. Patent Cases, Forum Shopping Peak Rodney Gilstrap · Eastern District of Texas · John Roberts · Lex Machina | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-20 | Harlan Crow Purchases Clarence Thomas's Mother's House in Undisclosed Deal Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Leola Williams (Thomas's mother) · Crow Holdings | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-16 | Supreme Court backs broad discovery in Argentina debt case (Alito joined majority); Singer's fund later benefited Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Elliott Management · Republic of Argentina · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Shaun McCutcheon · Republican National Committee · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-25 | Shelby County Decision Guts Voting Rights Act Preclearance Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · John Roberts · Shelby County Alabama | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Leonard Leo Directs Hidden Payments to Ginni Thomas Through Kellyanne Conway, Instructs "No Mention of Ginni" Leonard Leo · Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Kellyanne Conway · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | DonorsTrust Organizational Profile: Dark Money ATM Enabling Anonymous Billionaire Political Spending DonorsTrust · Donors Capital Fund · Whitney Lynn Ball · Kimberly Dennis · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-01 | Harlan Crow Begins Paying Private School Tuition for Thomas's Grandnephew Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Mark Martin · Hidden Lake Academy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-01 | Samuel Alito Takes Undisclosed Alaska Fishing Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Leonard Leo · Robin Arkley II | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-15 | eBay v. MercExchange: Supreme Court Limits Automatic Patent Injunctions, Enabling Patent Troll Business Model to Flourish U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Anthony Kennedy · eBay · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Begins Undisclosed Luxury Trips on Harlan Crow's Yacht and Private Jets Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Rochelle Charter (Crow's yacht company) | confirmed | |
| 2000-12-12 | Supreme Court Delivers Partisan Bush v. Gore Decision with Corporate Legal Team Involvement George W. Bush · Al Gore · William Rehnquist · Sandra Day O'Connor · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | CNP and Federalist Society Coordination - Leonard Leo Links Judicial and Political Networks Council for National Policy · Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Clarence Thomas | confirmed | |
| 1988-06-29 | Morrison v. Olson: Scalia's Lone Dissent Articulates Unitary-Executive Theory That Becomes Movement Doctrine U.S. Supreme Court · William Rehnquist · Antonin Scalia · Theodore Olson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1987-10-23 | Senate Rejects Robert Bork Supreme Court Nomination 42-58, First Ideological Rejection in Nearly a Century Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · Edward Kennedy · Lewis Powell · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | Olin Foundation Law and Economics Programs Expand to Elite Law Schools John M. Olin Foundation · William E. Simon · Stanford Law School · Harvard Law School · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1986-02-25 | Meese Announces West Publishing Deal: Presidential Signing Statements Enter U.S. Code Legislative History Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Samuel Alito · West Publishing Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1983-06-23 | INS v. Chadha: Supreme Court Invalidates Legislative Veto in 200+ Statutes, Structural Shift Toward Executive Power U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Byron White · William Rehnquist · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Established: Conservative Judicial Pipeline Inception Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · Robert Bork · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Organizational Profile: Judicial Pipeline and Conservative Legal Movement Infrastructure Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · +10 | confirmed | |
| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · DC Circuit Court of Appeals · Federalist Society · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-01 | Federalist Society Founded to Capture Conservative Legal Pipeline Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · Spencer Abraham · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | Supreme Court Adopts Bork's "Consumer Welfare Standard," Transforming Antitrust Law U.S. Supreme Court · Robert Bork | confirmed | |
| 1977-06-23 | Supreme Court Decides GTE Sylvania, First Major Chicago School Antitrust Victory U.S. Supreme Court · Aaron Director · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1976-05-24 | Powell Expands Corporate Speech Rights in Virginia State Board of Pharmacy Decision Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Brennan · Warren Burger · Byron White · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-25 | Milliken v. Bradley - Supreme Court Blocks Cross-District School Desegregation, Entrenches White Flight Chief Justice Warren Burger · Justice Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-03-21 | San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality Justice Lewis Powell · Justice Thurgood Marshall · Demetrio Rodriguez · Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Richard Nixon · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 1971-10-22 | Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John Mitchell · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1971-10-21 | Nixon nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court two months after corporate blueprint memo Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Senate · William H. Rehnquist | confirmed | |
| 1971-08-23 | Lewis Powell Writes Landmark Memo Blueprinting Corporate Institutional Capture Strategy Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Eugene B. Sydnor Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Nixon Administration | confirmed | |
| 1952-06-02 | Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer: Supreme Court Strikes Steel Seizure; Jackson Concurrence Becomes Canonical Executive-Power Framework U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Robert H. Jackson · Felix Frankfurter · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1944-12-18 | Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment U.S. Supreme Court · Fred Korematsu · Hugo Black · Robert Jackson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1942-07-02 | FDR Proclamation 2561 Creates Military Tribunal for Nazi Saboteurs; Ex parte Quirin Becomes Cited Precedent for Post-9/11 Detention Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Supreme Court · Harlan F. Stone · Francis Biddle · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Announces Judicial Reorganization Plan to Add Up to Six Supreme Court Justices, Triggering Court-Packing Crisis Franklin D. Roosevelt · Supreme Court of the United States · John Nance Garner · Hatton Sumners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Court-Packing Plan: Executive Assault on Judicial Independence Establishes Permanent Template Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings · Burton Wheeler · Henry Ashurst · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1936-12-21 | United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export: Sutherland Invents 'Sole Organ' Doctrine of Presidential Foreign-Affairs Supremacy U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1936-01-06 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v. Butler, Invalidating Key New Deal Farm Program Supreme Court of the United States · Owen J. Roberts · Harlan Fiske Stone · William M. Butler · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1935-05-27 | "Black Monday" Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down National Industrial Recovery Act in Three Anti-New Deal Rulings Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Benjamin Cardozo · Harlan Fiske Stone · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-05-27 | Humphrey's Executor v. United States: Supreme Court Limits Presidential Removal Power, Establishes Constitutional Predicate for Independent Agencies U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · William E. Humphrey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1927-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Executed After Seven Years of Biased Proceedings Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Alvin Fuller · A. Lawrence Lowell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1927-05-02 | Supreme Court Endorses Forced Sterilization in Buck v. Bell Eugenics Decision Oliver Wendell Holmes · Carrie Buck · Harry Laughlin · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1927-04-11 | Supreme Court Applies Antitrust Law to Union Secondary Boycotts in Bedford Cut Stone George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court · Journeymen Stone Cutters Association · Bedford Cut Stone Company | confirmed | |
| 1926-10-25 | Myers v. United States: Taft Court Reads Presidential Removal Power Into Article II, Predicate for Later Unitary-Executive Claims U.S. Supreme Court · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Frank S. Myers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1925-05-25 | Supreme Court Reverses Coronado Decision, Opens Unions to Antitrust Liability William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America · Coronado Coal Company | confirmed | |
| 1923-04-09 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Minimum Wage Law for Women in Adkins Decision George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court · Children's Hospital · Willie Lyons | confirmed | |
| 1922-09-01 | Railway Shopcraft Strike Broken by Daugherty Sweeping Injunction Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding · Railroad Labor Board | confirmed | |
| 1922-06-05 | Supreme Court Rules Unincorporated Unions Can Be Sued in Coronado Coal Case William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America · Coronado Coal Company | confirmed | |
| 1922-05-15 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Tax as Unconstitutional William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress · Drexel Furniture Company | confirmed | |
| 1921-12-19 | Supreme Court Invalidates Arizona Anti-Injunction Law in Truax v. Corrigan William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · Arizona State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 1921-01-03 | Supreme Court Guts Clayton Act Labor Protections in Duplex Printing Decision Mahlon Pitney · U.S. Supreme Court · International Association of Machinists · Duplex Printing Press Company | confirmed | |
| 1920-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Frederick Katzmann · Webster Thayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1919-11-10 | Abrams v. United States: Holmes Dissents, Articulates 'Marketplace of Ideas' Free Speech Theory Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Justice Louis Brandeis · Jacob Abrams | confirmed | |
| 1919-03-03 | Schenck v. United States: Supreme Court Creates 'Clear and Present Danger' Test, Upholds Espionage Act Convictions Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Charles Schenck · Socialist Party of America | confirmed | |
| 1918-06-03 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Law in Hammer v. Dagenhart U.S. Supreme Court · Justice William R. Day · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1917-12-10 | Hitchman Coal v. Mitchell: Supreme Court Authorizes Injunctions to Enforce Yellow-Dog Contracts Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Mahlon Pitney · United Mine Workers of America · Hitchman Coal and Coke Company | confirmed | |
| 1911-02-24 | Buck's Stove Case: Gompers, Mitchell, Morrison Sentenced for Contempt, Boycotts Criminalized Samuel Gompers · John Mitchell · Frank Morrison · American Federation of Labor · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1908-02-24 | Muller v. Oregon: Brandeis Brief Upholds Women's Labor Protections Using Paternalistic Reasoning Supreme Court of the United States · Louis Brandeis · Curt Muller · Oregon Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1908-02-03 | Supreme Court Loewe v. Lawlor Decision Holds Union Members Personally Liable for Damages U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller · United Hatters of North America · D.E. Loewe & Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1908-01-27 | Adair v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Yellow-Dog Contracts Supreme Court of the United States · Justice John Marshall Harlan · William Adair · Louisville and Nashville Railroad | confirmed | |
| 1905-04-17 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Labor Protections in Lochner v. New York U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Rufus Peckham · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Justice John Harlan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1895-05-27 | Supreme Court In Re Debs Decision Upholds Federal Injunctions Against Strikes U.S. Supreme Court · Justice David Josiah Brewer · Eugene V. Debs · Federal Judiciary · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1895-01-21 | U.S. v. E.C. Knight: Supreme Court Shields Sugar Trust and Eviscerates Antitrust Law U.S. Supreme Court · Melville Fuller · American Sugar Refining Company · E.C. Knight Company · +1 | confirmed |