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If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Justice Samuel Alito’s “Stop the Steal” battle flags and secretly recorded statements, it’s that the Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority doesn’t give a damn about the so-called ethics rules they issued last November.

But the Supreme Court’s ethics problems go far beyond Alito’s flags.

At root, the corruption of the Supreme Court begins with the money from right-wing funders like Leonard Leo, Charles Koch, and Harlan Crow filtering through the judiciary.

The far right has spent decades quietly orchestrating a well-funded assault on the judiciary. That’s why it’s not enough for pundits and politicians to merely bemoan the court’s extreme decisions — we need dogged investigative journalism that exposes how billionaire money is undermining democracy.

Will you donate $5 to support the ongoing investigative journalism needed to follow the money and expose the corruption of the Supreme Court and the entire judiciary?

New reporting by The Intercept’s Shawn Musgrave revealed how Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society co-chair and right-wing superlobbyist who has played a key role advising on every conservative nomination to the Supreme Court since Chief Justice John Roberts, is now funneling tens of millions of dollars into law schools in an apparent attempt to buy academic credibility for his most fringe legal theories.

Earlier reporting further revealed how loopholes in disclosure rules have allowed wealthy benefactors to fund groups that file briefs to the Supreme Court without ever having to disclose their financial ties.

These are just two examples of how wealthy corporate and right-wing interests work behind the scenes to shape outcomes at the Supreme Court — and uncovering these hidden webs of money and influence requires countless hours of poring over documents, tracking down leads, and following up with sources.

This is the kind of dogged investigative reporting that fewer and fewer news outlets can afford to do in this era of shrinking newsrooms and news deserts. That’s why the support of The Intercept’s readers is so critical to help us keep following the money and exposing Supreme Court corruption.

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