“Turns out ‘going high’ is just a great view of the collapse.”

A serialized exposé of how America’s justice system was quietly hollowed out, captured, and repurposed long before the DOJ ever became a political weapon. The Justice Collapse Files traces the decades‑long power plays, procedural sabotage, judicial stacking, and norm‑worshipping paralysis that let one side rewrite the rules while the other side kept pretending the rulebook still mattered.

From the Federalist Society pipeline to the Garland blockade, from the blue‑slip self‑owns to the Supreme Court supermajority, this series pulls every thread to show how the courts were captured first — and how that capture made the DOJ’s eventual weaponization not just possible, but inevitable.

This is the prequel to the crisis we’re living in now: a forensic, furious, darkly funny autopsy of the institutions that were supposed to protect us, and the political class that let them rot.