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corporatization of the Supreme Court
Posted by timethief • 5/16/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: banking regulation, corporations, price fixing, supreme court, usa
- "By now everyone knows the new Supreme Court tilts to the right. Bush's nominees Justice Alito and Chief Justice Roberts lead a conservative five-justice bloc, where reproductive health rights have been cut back and the President's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives keeps getting public money.
What's less known is the court's newly expanded function as an institution of corporate power. Since Bush's appointments, the court has begun hearing far more business cases and, in case after case, has "pushed the law in a direction favored by business," as the Wall Street Journal reports. For example, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, America's most powerful business lobby, took a position on 15 cases before the court in 2007 and its side won in all but 2. ... "
Read the full article -> www.zcommunications.org/zmag/viewArticle/21350
What's your take on this article and the situation?
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TT,
I don't think you have anything to worry about. With Justice Suter leaving, you can rest assured Obama will appoint someone with empathy. Who cares what the law says or what the intent of the law is, empathy will make us all feel better.
In addition, with the current rate of Government takeovers (Banks, Auto Industry, etc) by Obama, those pesky Faith-Based Initiatives, The Chamber of Commerce and probably a lot of capitalist pigs will be swallowed up. Case in point is the Obama's administrations handling of Chrysler. Obama's respect for the rule of law makes Bush look like a rookie.
www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=475838-
Brilliant reply, Bob. -
Well put Bob. And I mean it. -
Obama should appoint the left-wing equivilant of Scalia, but I don't think Rev. Write is available.
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Believe it or not AmmoBob, corporate bounties and "faith based" programs are part of Obama's bourgeois socialism. That's why he has the Govornor from Boeing as his Commerce Secretary.
as for the "faith-based" programs, see:
jeffersonsmammoth.blogspot.com/2009/02/church-and-state.html
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As far as the court being a promoter of corporate soveriegnty, it always has been
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College_v._Woodward -
John Roberts fooled a lot of people.
Roberts’s record is not that of a humble moderate but, rather, that of a doctrinaire conservative. The kind of humility that Roberts favors reflects a view that the Court should almost always defer to the existing power relationships in society. In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff. Even more than Scalia, who has embodied judicial conservatism during a generation of service on the Supreme Court, Roberts has served the interests, and reflected the values, of the contemporary Republican Party.” Obama may be leading the country leftward, but “Roberts’s service on the Court, which is, of course, likely to continue for decades, offers an enduring and faithful reflection of the Bush Presidency.
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/25/090525fa_fact_toobin-
we can only hope that Nature intervenes
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Agreed
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i put that a little nicer than i did in the "Souter Retires" thread
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