nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201026-232755-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201026s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201026-232755-0 doi eng 342 23 Golanski, Alani Author aut Dark Money Subverts the Rule of Law Golanski, Alani Verfassungsblog 2020-10-26 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier During the recently completed United States Senate committee hearings for Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island used his time to try to demonstrate how right-wing groups, including the Federalist Society and Judicial Crisis Network, use dark money to shape the American judiciary. A common reaction, certainly on the part of those continually disadvantaged on the policy side, is that massive dark money investment in the legal system’s actors and outcomes subverts the rule of law. Although ordinary citizens, informed commentators, and political representatives make this claim, theorists have paid scant attention to explaining why this might be so. This omission is likely rooted in the sort of concept theorists think the rule of law is. CC BY-SA 4.0 Amy Coney Barrett Dark Money Donald Trump Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/dark-money-subverts-the-rule-of-law/ raw object