The U.S. Supreme Court works hard.......for the Chamber of Commerce.

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WASHINGTON -- It was another good year for the Chamber of Commerce at the nation's highest court, which has increasingly taken a corporate tilt under Chief Justice John Roberts.

The Chamber had a 78 percent success rate in the Supreme Court cases it intervened in this term. In other words, it won 14 and lost three cases in which it filed amicus briefs. An additional case was considered neither a win nor a loss because the Court ruled on a separate matter.

In the most controversial cases -- the ones that divided the court 5-4 along ideological lines -- the Chamber was undefeated, winning all eight.

Tom Donnelly, counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center, has been tracking the Chamber's success rate. He noted in the last Supreme Court term, the Chamber actually went undefeated. Nevertheless, there's no question that the most recent term was a victory for the business lobbying group. .......................(more)

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