Before James Bopp led the fight to deregulate campaign finance law that culminated in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision in 2010, the conservative lawyer had another role: general counsel for the National Right to Life Committee, the country’s largest national anti-abortion group.

Bopp’s two interests — flooding the electoral system with undisclosed sources of cash and policing women’s bodily autonomy — converged earlier this week after the leak of a draft opinion signaled the imminent end of Roe v. Wade. The tentative majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was signed by five conservative justices, three of whom are direct products of the Right’s dark-money-fueled judicial network, and four of whom were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote.

The plutocratic funding that built up the modern conservative legal movement and effectively produced this anti-majoritarian decision lays bare the antidemocratic core of the court — and the urgency of divesting the robed nine of their extraordinary power.