[...] Judge Gorsuch’s approach “has created a system in which single individuals and corporations can spend tens of millions of dollars to influence elections, and in which candidates and elected officials are significantly more responsive to the priorities of an elite donor class than to Americans on the whole,” the CLC said.76 A recent report from Demos found that the overwhelming majority of elite donors are white and warned that this can “produce public policies and practices that are skewed against people of color on issues from housing policy to mass incarceration to fair wages.”77