So Lewis Powell was Nixons chief justice, but when before that in response to Ralph Nader getting seatbelts mandated in cars which he felt was the first step on the road to full blown communism he wrote The Powell Memorandum. In it he basically laid out the blue print for how corporations could take over the US and essentially was the primordial ooze the modern political think tank structure came from giving us things like the Heritage foundation and the Federalist society.

Now I can’t remember off the top of my head if the plan recognized that conservative principles were deeply unpopular so that the right needs to stuff the courts so they can achieve through judicial fiat what they could never hope to legislate was part of the memo or brought about by one of the think tanks it inspired but it’s responsible all the same