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The Supreme Court has been corrupt for generations now. Honestly they should just throw out every decision they've made in the past 20 years, and they should be replaced by judges that actually reflect what Americans want.
SCOTUS is a corporately captured body, just like Congress.  They’ve been able to get away with it a bit easier than Congress until recent years due to people’s perceptions of judges as impartial arbiters. >

The irony in thinking of them as impartial arbiters is that because they are selected by the Executive branch and confirmed by Congress, they are the most partial arbiters in the nation >

Any% speedrun to lose legitimacy. >

The society has raised more than $23 million over the last two decades. Because of its nonprofit status, it does not have to publicly disclose its donors — and declined when asked to do so. But The New York Times was able to identify the sources behind more than $10.7 million raised since 2003, the first year for which relevant records were available.At least $6.4 million — or 60 percent — came from corporations, special interest groups, or lawyers and firms that argued cases before the court, according to an analysis of archived historical society newsletters and publicly available records that detail grants given to the society by foundations. Of that, at least $4.7 million came from individuals or entities in years when they had an interest in a pending federal court case on appeal or at the high court, records show.
The donors include corporations like Chevron, which gave while embroiled in a 2021 Supreme Court case involving efforts by cities to hold the oil company accountable for its role in global warming. Veteran Supreme Court litigators gave while representing clients before the court that included Tyson Foods and the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China. >

Virtually no one interviewed by The Times, including critics of the society’s fund-raising practices, said they believed that donations to the society had any bearing on cases before the justices. For one thing, many of the donors are already part of the Supreme Court’s insular and clubby world, where former clerks frequently socialize with and argue cases before their former bosses, and where the justices steadfastly refuse to televise their arguments and specifically reserve only a fraction of the court’s 439 seats for members of the public.
Carter G. Phillips, a Supreme Court litigator at Sidley Austin and the society’s treasurer, said it never occurred to him that anyone would use the society as a way to buy face time or favor with the justices, in part because the society’s events generally afford only fleeting contact with them.
“It’s one thing to go into the Oval Office because you spent $100 million on a campaign and get to talk substantively about the most important thing in the world to you,” he said, “as opposed to getting to go to a dinner or a lecture by a law professor on Marbury v. Madison where a justice might say a few words of introduction.” >

Doesn’t matter. Fucked up. 
Supreme Court is not a clown show. >

Does matter.. its an important part of the article that’s buried at the end, and outright states the opposite of what the rest of the article is suggesting, with no actual evidence that it’s happening.
But ya gotta have that rage porn right…. >

"Charity" = money laundering slush fund. >

What could possibly go right? >

Let’s guess which ones….
Edit: Color me surprised-All of them! >

All of them attend the charity events and mix with the donors >

well yeah, mods are real asshats over there. duh