| 2017-01-31 | Federalist Society Captures Federal Judiciary with $250M Dark Money
3 src Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Donald Trump · Mitch McConnell |
| confirmed |
| 2016-05-18 | Trump Promises All Supreme Court Picks Will Come From Federalist Society
3 src 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
5 src John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2014-10-20 | Harlan Crow Purchases Clarence Thomas's Mother's House in Undisclosed Deal
4 src Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow | | confirmed |
| 2014-06-16 | Supreme Court backs broad discovery in Argentina debt case (Alito joined majority); Singer's fund later benefited
4 src Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican National Committee · Anthony Kennedy · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-25 | Shelby County Decision Guts Voting Rights Act Preclearance
5 src Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Leonard Leo Directs Hidden Payments to Ginni Thomas Through Kellyanne Conway, Instructs "No Mention of Ginni"
4 src Leonard Leo · Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Kellyanne Conway · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | DonorsTrust Organizational Profile: Dark Money ATM Enabling Anonymous Billionaire Political Spending
4 src DonorsTrust · Koch brothers · Federalist Society · State Policy Network · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Harlan Crow Begins Paying Private School Tuition for Thomas's Grandnephew
4 src Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-01 | Samuel Alito Takes Undisclosed Alaska Fishing Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer
4 src Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Leonard Leo |
| confirmed |
| 2006-05-15 | eBay v. MercExchange: Supreme Court Limits Automatic Patent Injunctions, Enabling Patent Troll Business Model to Flourish
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Anthony Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 2003-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Begins Undisclosed Luxury Trips on Harlan Crow's Yacht and Private Jets
4 src Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow |
| confirmed |
| 2000-12-12 | Supreme Court Delivers Partisan Bush v. Gore Decision with Corporate Legal Team Involvement
4 src 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
2 src 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
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · William Rehnquist · Antonin Scalia · Edwin Meese |
| confirmed |
| 1987-10-23 | Senate Rejects Robert Bork Supreme Court Nomination 42-58, First Ideological Rejection in Nearly a Century
4 src Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · Edward Kennedy · Lewis Powell · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Olin Foundation Law and Economics Programs Expand to Elite Law Schools
3 src John M. Olin Foundation · Yale Law School |
| confirmed |
| 1986-02-25 | Meese Announces West Publishing Deal: Presidential Signing Statements Enter U.S. Code Legislative History
3 src Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Samuel Alito · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1983-06-23 | INS v. Chadha: Supreme Court Invalidates Legislative Veto in 200+ Statutes, Structural Shift Toward Executive Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Byron White · William Rehnquist · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Established: Conservative Judicial Pipeline Inception
4 src 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
4 src Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · +7 |
| confirmed |
| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court
3 src Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals · Federalist Society · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1982-01-01 | Federalist Society Founded to Capture Conservative Legal Pipeline
3 src Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · Yale Law School |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Supreme Court Adopts Bork's "Consumer Welfare Standard," Transforming Antitrust Law
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Robert Bork |
| confirmed |
| 1977-06-23 | Supreme Court Decides GTE Sylvania, First Major Chicago School Antitrust Victory
2 src 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
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Warren Burger · Byron White · Thurgood Marshall | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-25 | Milliken v. Bradley - Supreme Court Blocks Cross-District School Desegregation, Entrenches White Flight
3 src Warren Burger · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund |
| confirmed |
| 1973-03-21 | San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality
3 src Lewis Powell · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1971-08-23 | Lewis Powell Writes Landmark Memo Blueprinting Corporate Institutional Capture Strategy
5 src Lewis F. Powell 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
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Harry S. Truman · Fred Vinson |
| confirmed |
| 1944-12-18 | Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Frank Murphy · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1942-07-02 | FDR Proclamation 2561 Creates Military Tribunal for Nazi Saboteurs; Ex parte Quirin Becomes Cited Precedent for Post-9/11 Detention
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Supreme Court · Francis Biddle · J. Edgar Hoover |
| confirmed |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Announces Judicial Reorganization Plan to Add Up to Six Supreme Court Justices, Triggering Court-Packing Crisis
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Supreme Court of the United States · Senate Judiciary Committee · Charles Evans Hughes | | confirmed |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Court-Packing Plan: Executive Assault on Judicial Independence Establishes Permanent Template
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings |
| confirmed |
| 1936-12-21 | United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export: Sutherland Invents 'Sole Organ' Doctrine of Presidential Foreign-Affairs Supremacy
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · John Marshall |
| confirmed |
| 1936-01-06 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v. Butler, Invalidating Key New Deal Farm Program
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Harlan Fiske Stone · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Department of Agriculture | | confirmed |
| 1935-05-27 | "Black Monday" Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down National Industrial Recovery Act in Three Anti-New Deal Rulings
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Harlan Fiske Stone · Franklin D. Roosevelt | | confirmed |
| 1935-05-27 | Humphrey's Executor v. United States: Supreme Court Limits Presidential Removal Power, Establishes Constitutional Predicate for Independent Agencies
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1927-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Executed After Seven Years of Biased Proceedings
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1927-05-02 | Supreme Court Endorses Forced Sterilization in Buck v. Bell Eugenics Decision
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1927-04-11 | Supreme Court Applies Antitrust Law to Union Secondary Boycotts in Bedford Cut Stone
3 src George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1926-10-25 | Myers v. United States: Taft Court Reads Presidential Removal Power Into Article II, Predicate for Later Unitary-Executive Claims
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Louis Brandeis |
| confirmed |
| 1925-05-25 | Supreme Court Reverses Coronado Decision, Opens Unions to Antitrust Liability
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America |
| confirmed |
| 1923-04-09 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Minimum Wage Law for Women in Adkins Decision
3 src George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1922-09-01 | Railway Shopcraft Strike Broken by Daugherty Sweeping Injunction
3 src Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding |
| confirmed |
| 1922-06-05 | Supreme Court Rules Unincorporated Unions Can Be Sued in Coronado Coal Case
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America |
| confirmed |
| 1922-05-15 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Tax as Unconstitutional
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1921-12-19 | Supreme Court Invalidates Arizona Anti-Injunction Law in Truax v. Corrigan
3 src William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1921-01-03 | Supreme Court Guts Clayton Act Labor Protections in Duplex Printing Decision
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1920-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
3 src Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1919-11-10 | Abrams v. United States: Holmes Dissents, Articulates 'Marketplace of Ideas' Free Speech Theory
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Louis Brandeis | | confirmed |
| 1919-03-03 | Schenck v. United States: Supreme Court Creates 'Clear and Present Danger' Test, Upholds Espionage Act Convictions
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1918-06-03 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Law in Hammer v. Dagenhart
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1917-12-10 | Hitchman Coal v. Mitchell: Supreme Court Authorizes Injunctions to Enforce Yellow-Dog Contracts
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · United Mine Workers of America |
| confirmed |
| 1911-02-24 | Buck's Stove Case: Gompers, Mitchell, Morrison Sentenced for Contempt, Boycotts Criminalized
3 src Samuel Gompers · John Mitchell · American Federation of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1908-02-24 | Muller v. Oregon: Brandeis Brief Upholds Women's Labor Protections Using Paternalistic Reasoning
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Louis Brandeis | | confirmed |
| 1908-02-03 | Supreme Court Loewe v. Lawlor Decision Holds Union Members Personally Liable for Damages
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · American Federation of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1908-01-27 | Adair v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Yellow-Dog Contracts
3 src Supreme Court of the United States |
| confirmed |
| 1905-04-17 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Labor Protections in Lochner v. New York
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1895-05-27 | Supreme Court In Re Debs Decision Upholds Federal Injunctions Against Strikes
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene V. Debs · Federal Judiciary · Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1895-01-21 | U.S. v. E.C. Knight: Supreme Court Shields Sugar Trust and Eviscerates Antitrust Law
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1883-10-15 | Civil Rights Cases Strike Down 1875 Act, Legitimizing Jim Crow
4 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1876-03-27 | United States v. Cruikshank Guts Federal Civil Rights Enforcement
4 src U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1872-11-05 | Susan B. Anthony Arrested for Voting in Presidential Election Tests 14th Amendment
3 src Susan B. Anthony · Ulysses S. Grant | | confirmed |
| 1801-02-13 | Midnight Judges Act Enables Lame-Duck Court Packing by Defeated Federalists
3 src John Adams · Federalist Party · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |