John,

Billionaires are using their untaxed wealth to buy the Supreme Court and bend our democracy to their will. But we’re fighting back and our pressure is working.

Last week, the Supreme Court heard a case that could have major implications for our ability to more effectively tax billionaires and big corporations. And, thanks to our work together, these were the headlines coming out of those oral arguments:

The week before, the Senate Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas to Justice Clarence Thomas’s main billionaire benefactor, Harlan Crow, as well as Leonard Leo, the right-wing activist behind the conservative takeover of the court.

We need to keep the pressure on conflicted justices and Congress to hold the Supreme Court accountable to the American people. Donate today to power our campaign and demand the court reflect the will of the people, not a handful of right-wing billionaires.

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Thank you for fighting for the future of our democracy.

Maura Quint
Campaign Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund

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John,

In a huge tax case before the Supreme Court this past week, Moore v. U.S., most justices “appeared wary” during oral arguments of upending the tax code on behalf of billionaires and corporations.[1] But not Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, who gave their billionaire benefactors their money’s worth. According to Vox:[2]

“Only Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch appeared to have any sympathy at all for Grossman’s attacks on Congress’s power to tax investors. And, while both men threw a barrage of hostile questions at Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, Alito and Gorsuch’s colleagues seemed uninterested in humoring them.”

Without your help in keeping public pressure on the Court, we know the day could have gone very differently. Instead, even Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett seemed to understand the danger of openly siding with the billionaires while the Court is mired in a billionaire bribery scandal and the public is watching. Of course, we won’t know the final outcome until the Court issues its opinion in June. Meanwhile, the threat of a corrupted Court is still very real. Billionaires have spent decades buying access to Supreme Court justices. They’re not going to walk away from their investment so easily.

Now Congress is finally taking action.

We have been urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena Clarence Thomas’s main billionaire benefactor, Harlan Crow, as well as Leonard Leo, the mastermind behind the right-wing takeover of the court. And, even in the face of Republican obstruction, Democrats on the committee voted last week to do just that, requiring both to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

We’re holding Supreme Court justices accountable to the American people by shining a spotlight on their repeated failures to disclose gifts from their billionaire benefactors and their failures to recuse themselves from cases containing blatant conflicts of interest.

We’re showing that sunlight is the best disinfectant for billionaire-bought corruption on the Supreme Court. Donate today to hold conflicted SCOTUS justices accountable and fight for a tax system where the rich and powerful pay their fair share in taxes.

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Thank you for fighting for a democracy that is of, by, and for the people, not the billionaires.

Sarah Christopherson
Legislative and Policy Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund

[1] Supreme Court appears wary of repercussions of major case that could upend tax code
[2] Billionaires had a surprisingly bad day in the Supreme Court today