Forum Post: The supreme court is part of the problem
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 28, 2011, 4:38 p.m. EST by ronimacarroni
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The supreme court judges have one honourable yet simple duty.
That duty is to defend the US constitution.
Yet the supreme vote has defended unconstitutional acts such as the patriot act, corporate personhood and has flip flopped on things such as abortion.
Rather than defending people's rights, they defend whatever they happen to agree with at the time.
The fact that we have to fight to defend our rights enlisted in our constitution is sad and so is the supreme court.
The Supreme Count can only interpret (or misinterpret) the Constitution of the United States of America. One misinterpretation: A corporation is a person. Corporate person-hood must end!
This must be set straight - so that the Supreme Court stops making rulings that a corporate entity, in and or itself, is a person.
Support the Human Worth Amendment!
Learn more at: http://occupywallst.org/forum/human-worth-amendment/
It's not the Court; it's the justices. We need to have more poor people in positions of power imo.
While I agree that SCOTUS' favoritism of corporations is a large problem, I disagree that they are defending unconstitutional acts. The problem is that there is a great deal of room for interpretation, and the Justices stay within party lines. Only Kennedy can be seen on both sides, and he has dropped the ball lately in regards to corporations as well. I'd like to see the Court not be so politicized, but FDR pretty much ended that dream.
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