The Corporate Court: How the Supreme Court Just Declared Open Season on Your Rights

MeidasTouch legal analyst Dina Doll gives her quick thoughts on Friday's Supreme Court decisions

By Dina Doll

Photo by Ian Hutchinson on Unsplash

As the Supreme Court wrapped its term this week with a flurry of headline-grabbing decisions, one theme emerged like a flashing red light: the Court is systematically making it harder for people to enforce their rights—while throwing open the courthouse doors for corporations. This isn’t an accident. It’s the Koch brothers’ long game coming to full bloom.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has long warned of the dark money operation shaping the federal judiciary. Now, the evidence is on full display. Let’s examine three recent Supreme Court decisions that show exactly how the Court is working by design to tilt the scales of justice.

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1. Trump v. CASA de Maryland — Limiting Nationwide Protections

In Trump v. CASA, the Court didn’t just dodge a ruling—it took a sledgehammer to a key tool used to protect civil rights nationwide. The case involved a Trump-era immigration policy that civil rights groups challenged as discriminatory. Though the specific policy was rescinded, the Court used the opportunity to wipe away the lower court ruling and signal that nationwide injunctions—long used to halt unconstitutional policies—are on thin ice.

Instead of allowing one federal judge to block unlawful policies nationwide, individuals must now file repetitive, expensive lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions—or hope their case gets consolidated into a class action. Either way, justice is delayed—and increasingly denied.

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2. Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic — When the Right to Sue Disappears

In Medina, South Carolina tried to strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding—despite federal law that gives patients the right to choose their healthcare provider. A patient sued, arguing the state’s move violated her rights.

But the Supreme Court rejected her case, ruling that Medicaid recipients can’t sue to enforce this protection. Why? Because, according to the majority, Congress didn’t include “clear enough” language allowing private individuals to enforce their rights under the law.

This is a disturbing shift. It means that even when federal law grants you a right—like access to your chosen provider—you may have no ability to enforce it in court unless Congress wrote it with surgical precision. The result? States are now empowered to quietly dismantle healthcare access with little fear of legal consequence.

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3. FDA v. R.J. Reynolds — Corporate Rights Trump Public Health

While the Court slammed the door on patients and immigrants, it threw it wide open for Big Tobacco.

In FDA v. R.J. Reynolds, the Court sided with tobacco companies challenging FDA rules requiring graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging. The industry argued that these warnings violated their First Amendment rights—and the Court agreed.

Let that sink in: the same Court that refuses to recognize the legal standing of a woman fighting to access healthcare had no trouble affirming the constitutional rights of a corporation that sells addictive, cancer-causing products. Public health took a backseat to Philip Morris’s branding.

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The Dark Money Blueprint

These aren’t just random decisions. They’re the logical outcome of a decades-long strategy—funded by billionaires, executed by Leonard Leo’s judicial pipeline, and greenlit by a captured Court.

That’s not justice. That’s oligarchy.

As Senator Whitehouse has warned, the Court isn’t just drifting to the right—it’s being driven there. Until we expose and dismantle the dark money networks behind this capture, decisions like these will keep coming—and real people's lives will continue to be collateral damage in a corporate power grab masquerading as jurisprudence.

Watch commentary from Dina Doll on the MeidasTouch YouTube channel.

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Dina Doll is an experienced attorney and legal analyst. She is a regular MeidasTouch contributor, an official legal analyst for the Law & Crime Network and has appeared on multiple media outlets including CNN, NewsNation, Access Hollywood, Spectrum News, CTV, HLN TYT, Court TV, Newsmax, KCRW “All Things Considered” and numerous podcasts.