Chamber Of Commerce Is Big Winner With Increasingly Conservative Supreme Court
SAHIL KAPUR MAY 10, 2013, 11:40 AM
Last term, the Chamber of Commerce was undefeated — it won every Supreme Court case it weighed in on. So far this term, it has secured favorable rulings in 6 out of 7 cases.
The modern Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is the most corporate-friendly in generations, according to a new study by the Constitutional Accountability Center, a liberal legal advocacy and research group which studied the court participation and success of the Chamber of Commerce, the behemoth lobbying group for business interests, in recent decades.
The basic trend that CAC found was a dramatic pro-corporate tilt since the 1980s. Under Chief Justice Warren Burger from 1981-1986, the Court sided with the Chamber of Commerce 43 percent of the time. That number rose to 56 percent from 1994-2005 under Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and to 69 percent from 2006-2013 under Roberts.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Chamber’s involvement in Supreme Court cases has sharply increased over the same period. It filed amicus briefs in 4 percent of cases in the early 1980s; today it’s 24 percent, according to CAC. More notably, the Chamber has in recent years written more petitions than any other private organization calling on the Court to take up cases.
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