If our country is a country of laws that keeps even and honest then we need to cleanup the U.S. Supreme Court, the last stop for all lawsuits and even then they can change any laws based on previous laws. However, it appears they are now changing laws based on corporate money and vacations.
Today, if the political party in the White House wants a change on the billionaire-influenced Supreme Court they would have to have the money today for any change.
The corporate billionaires use Citizens United ruling to buy off the late Antonin Scalia, current Supreme Court judges Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito—that we know of—and who knows about the rest for the temptation of billions of dollars can sway even the so-called honest judges.
At this time, any case, which would do damage to the 1 percent will lose, which means any labor case, union case or voting case will lose even student debt relief. On top of this any climate and healthcare laws will not make it passed the Supreme Court because theses challenges might impact billionaires’ income.
Remember, the Supreme Court giveth and it taketh away, like taking away the abortion laws.
If we are a country of laws then we must find a way back to a fair and balanced judicial system. To love our current problem of corporate bought and paid for judges by expanding the Supreme Court, do we change the law and make the court of term limits, do we establish a way for the sitting president to have removal authority if a judge engages corporate corruption? Or do we change the selection process to ensure judges are not in the pocket of billionaires or inclined to be with consequences great enough to make it not worth the money?
I sit on a board and the law requires that I fill out a conflict of interest form every year. Do the Supreme Court judges have to fill out this form or ones like it? They are supposed to report any gift, money of otherwise, which Thomas and Alito did not do and are now scrambling to do so, but both have asked for extensions of three months or so to complete the forms. They should have been shown the door.
Yes, they are coming for us. Workers need to have one another’s backs because no one else will. Neither the broader labor movement nor the Democratic party are prepared to meet the urgency of this moment. So it’s going to fall upon the rest of us to mount a real resistance against Trump’s authoritarian takeover. We’re going to have to get our hands dirty. I don’t care if you have a good, well-paying union job and you are in the middle class now—if you see a worker being dragged out of his workplace regardless of how skilled the job and potentially taken to another country, you should be ready to be there for that worker. When I.C.E. shows up, gather around and shame them into leaving. It has worked in other places. America is sleep walking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anyone out there who is a member of a labor union that is safe—at this point— and doesn’t think this applies to them. Understand that they just haven’t gotten to you yet. They’re coming for all of us. There are ...
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