Justice Samuel Alito wants desperately for us to believe that everything is just fine at the Supreme Court.
Before an audience at Notre Dame on Sept. 30, Alito denounced "unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court."
The problem for Justice Alito's sense of grievance is that the evidence supports our concerns.
Americans' perception that the court lacks independence, and the court's related drop in approval, doesn't flow from some left-wing conspiracy.
It's a recognition that the evidence shows a pattern whenever certain interests come before the court.
All of this required boatloads of anonymous money; what people who study this clandestine activity call "dark money."
And the Court That Dark Money Built has squandered the benefit of the doubt. »