The Transformation of the Supreme Court

The New York Times documented a strategy known as Operation Higher Court that was literally part of a coordinated influence and access campaign directed at the court's Republican appointees. Leonard Leo's role in all of this, matchmaking the justices with different billionaire benefactors to basically gift them affirmation and validation if they are kind of staying the course. This reporting is so, I think, transformational and important to the public's understanding about the court and its justices. Just thinking about the justices as individuals, the court returned for the first time post COVID to the previous practice or tradition of delivering bench statements. But also they are now from the bench reading usually summaries of their opinions.