The Winners In The Roberts Court

Besides people who want to pray at town meetings, the Roberts court has favored one group consistently.  A new study reports:

The Roberts court has sided with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce 71 percent of the time when the powerful business lobby formally involves itself in a case, according to a tally kept by the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC)

“Businesses tend to do very well, and that’s especially true in the closer cases,” said Tom Donnelly, counsel for the center. “They find a very receptive ear at the Roberts court.”

One consistent ideology has animated this court, if it is good for big business, it is good for America.

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.