Conservative Counter-Revolution Inspired by the 1971 Powell Memo has yielded the Establishment's Robert-5 SCOTUS

Shortly before Nixon nominated corporate lawyer Lewis Powell to the Supreme Court in 1971, Powell promulgated a detailed manifesto explaining that “the judiciary may be the most important instrument for social, economic and political change” — one that for the corporate right was “a vast area of opportunity.”

The Fruits of the Powell Memo: Like a small amount of bacteria exploding exponentially in a patient with a weakened immune system, the conservative counter-establishment has taken over the host organism and become the establishment it- self, with the Robert-5 SCOTUS fulfilling Powell’s dream.

In what The National Constitution Center calls, “the Supreme Court decision that ended Nixon’s presidency.”, The United States v. Nixon’s unanimous ruling forced Nixon to turn over the tapes of his Oval Office conversations to the House Judiciary Committee.