Today's Must-Read: The "Conservative" Court

Digby has a post on one part of the Kavanaugh hearings that I think everyone should know about. This graphic says it all:

This is from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). The post includes a transcript of his opening statement. Key quote:

There is a feature to these eighty cases. They almost all implicate interests important to the big funders and influencers of the Republican Party. When the Republican Justices go off on these partisan excursions, there’s a big Republican corporate or partisan interest involved 92 percent of the time.

A tiny handful of these cases don’t implicate an interest of the big Republican influencers — so flukishly few we can set them aside. That leaves 73 cases that all implicate a major Republican Party interest. Seventy-three is a lot of cases at the Supreme Court.

Is there a pattern to those 73 cases? Oh, yes there is.

Every time a big Republican corporate or partisan interest is involved, the big Republican interest wins. Every. Time.

Let me repeat: In seventy-three partisan decisions where there’s a big Republican interest at stake, the big Republican interest wins. Every. Damned. Time.

And Kavanaugh will just make it worse -- a lock on the Supreme Court for the oligarchy.