The US Supreme Court is at the centre of economic policymaking. Trade policy, immigration enforcement, climate regulation, labour law, and the scope of federal agencies routinely hinge on judicial review. As political conflict increasingly bypasses Congress, the Supreme Court has become a decisive arena for resolving distributional disputes. This has intensified long-standing concerns that the Court’s decisions systematically favour economic elites.
Ruling for the rich: Evidence of a pro-wealthy bias on the US Supreme Court
There have long been concerns that US Supreme Court decisions increasingly favour economic elites
