instance. these days what you are seeing in the actions of the court is that it is increasingly shaped by similar kinds of dynamics. take, for example, somebody like leonard leo, a very prominent conservative legal activist who oversees a set of organizations, a web of groups involved in a number of cases. take the affirmative action case. the litigant in that case, the plaintive, students for fair admissions, in 2020 a third of their revenue reportedly came from an organization that leo runs, and many of the briefs that were submitted in support of that position came from organizations that he also supports. so we need to be thinking as much about money affecting the court as we used to think about money affecting a lack of jason, it makes americans uncomfortable to think that all these machinations are going on with supreme court, particularly the leonard leo thing, because it as though he has an agenda and then he finds a plaintiff and a case to fit
let s not kid ourselves in thinking that this is just one sided. the other side, the left has folks like george soros that are out there funding campaigns and organizations that are out there not only doing alter research on judges or people that could be judges, the same is on the right side. so if we re going to change this, we need to change it across the board for everybody, and let s not kid ourselves and just say it s the republicans and leonard leo and these folks that are corrupting the system. is that right, evan? i think one of the things that my colleagues jane and susan glasser trying to draw attention to is the fact that you ve seen a dramatic effect that everybody is seeing the donald trump was able to pour through conserve justice on the court in a single term, as it is positive effect on the composition of the court and you ve seen the results of the last couple years, especially the dobbs decision, lgbtq, and
affirmative action. you see this turn up in attitudes about the court. trust is declining rapidly we get pulaski fall shows that its lowest level ever recorded, and it s gone down 20 points in two years. so it may be, in fact, that there is activity on both sides, but the effect is quite noticeable and quite distinct right now, from these conservative dark money groups. j.d., want to quickly respond? i don t think we re killing killing ourselves. george soros is transparent, especially about the organizations he finds. i m proud to say i kind of broke the leonard lee leroy story to the daily beast several years ago, and we have no idea to this day who has under this massive campaign. now we re talking about money in the billions of dollars. there s been fantastic reporting, incredible vest investigative reporting for a number of outlets, but we still don t know who is paying for this, and that is not on the left. that s extremely troubling. i appreciate all of your information, f
into particular movie theaters. and now we see that the other side of it is to say, well, anything i feel is an area that i want to preclude other people, i should be able to do it based on the supreme court decision. it opens the floodgates and goes back to what is wrong with the supreme court decisions. it doesn t have the legal rationale that the american people can follow. or businesses. and that s what the supreme court is supposed to do. it s supposed to give us a rule to follow, and right now, as it is pointed, out we can do about anything we want based on these very vague decisions by the court. jay? do you agree? i want to respectfully disagree with the professor. first, obviously, michael imperioli, thank you for your allyship and i understand he was making a lighthearted point. that being said, my general sense is, we should not be giving our enemies, our opponents, more rights than they are already taking away. so this was, i think, first of all, this opinion was wrong.