Forum Post: THE SUPREME COURT RULINGS
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 6, 2011, 10:11 p.m. EST by IonU
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from Stratford, CA
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There has been too much in the way of tax benefits that have been singularly directed toward the wealthy. And you cannot have a healthy society when the wealthy have greater access to political influence and often get extraordinary tax benefits. In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. The Roberts Court has once again twisted the Constitution to benefit the wealthy and powerful while leaving ordinary Americans with a diminished voice Read the other headlines: “Supreme Court Removes Another Barrier to Corporate Ownership of Elections” This has put the final nail in the coffin.
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Poll results http://tiny.cc/qa6mp
I've got a Blacks Law Dictionary from 1910 and coporation was a "person" back then. This ain't something new.
Unfortunately, the work of the Roberts Court has only begun. Corporate CEOs and their legal/political cohorts know that the scales of justice in the federal judiciary are now weighted in their favor. The selection of most judges gets almost no attention (much less opposition) from Congress, the media, and the public. This has allowed Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II to slide hordes of corporatists onto the bench, from district courts through the Supremes. As a result, corporations are ever more inclined to run to court, where they are winning incremental and wholesale increases of corporate power over employees, environmentalists, and the rest of us. Forget modesty and humility, an aloof and arrogant judicial branch of government has arisen and become openly political. Federal judges across the country are flagrantly abusing their authority and public trust by rigging America's economic and political rules for the further enrichment of already powerful and privileged corporations. it's time to call them out. Progressives, along with honest conservatives, must focus more on this corporate takeover of the judiciary and directly challenge the judges' service to the moneyed elites. Let me be blunt: John Roberts, the leader of the pack, has turned into an autocratic, unelected national lawmaker, imposing his political vision as the law of our land. He is doing major structural damage to America's unifying sense of fairness and justice. We can't allow him to keep hiding behind the judicial robe while he mugs us and our democratic ideals. He should be impeached.