How to read the Supreme Court: It’s the neoliberalism, baby, except for Ketanji Brown Jackson

Corey Robin · 30 Jun 2026

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The Roberts Court is above all a neoliberal Court.

Their wordsI think the simplest explanation is that the Roberts Court is, above all, a neoliberal Court.
Our reading
The Supreme Court will not resist repressive state power unless it breaks the capstones of neoliberal capitalism.

Their wordsSpelled out in terms of ideological substance, it is a tradition that will not blink before repressive state power, unless that power violates the basic capstones of neoliberal capitalism: no tariffs, no political control over monetary policy, no fundamental redefinition of the nation such as to preclude, now and forever, the children of immigrants.

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