That the Supreme Court is ethically compromised has become almost comically obvious. Recent sweeping decisions, from the overturning of Roe v. Wade to the dismantling of affirmative action, to the extension of innocent Americans’ prison sentences, have been handed down in the midst of myriad scandals involving justices and their wealthy, purportedly uncorrupt friends. The high court, now dominated by conservatives, is not just independent but dangerously rogue. For Issue...
In a moment of increasing popular outrage about the most conservative Supreme Court in modern American history, labor cases rarely take center stage. To be sure, America’s left-liberal political coalition pays more attention to these cases, and to labor unions generally, than it would have twenty years ago. But even today, labor’s supporters still have trouble naming all that’s at stake when the Court subverts labor law. Legal attacks on...