Nine justices just blew a hole in corporate America’s favorite legal shield.
Workers who move goods across state lines –
even for bread companies, not trucking giants – may have just escaped forced arbitration.
At the same time, Justice Samuel Alito quietly vanished from a wild Trump-linked case, offering no explanation.
Two stories, one Supreme Court, and a growing crisis of trus
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Bissonette’s case marks a rare moment where all nine justices sided
with a worker against a powerful corporation. By broadening who can qualify as “engaged in interstate commerce,”
the Court opened a door for thousands of drivers, delivery workers, and other contractors to challenge
alleged wage theft in real courts, not behind closed arbitration doors written by company lawyers.
It’s a technical ruling with explosive real-world stakes.
Yet even as the Court spoke with one voice there, it stayed conspicuously silent in another arena.
Justice Alito’s unexplained recusal from an outlandish but symbolically loaded lawsuit against
Donald Trump and JD Vance comes amid intense scrutiny over his political neutrality.
Flags flown upside down, emails from a self-styled Trump savior, and unanswered ethics questions now swirl around a
Court whose power is growing just as public trust in it falters.
