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.
In 2012 more than a quarter of all political contributions came from just 30,000 people who represented the 1 percent of the 1 percent, 90 percent who spent the most won. Today, we are an experiment in either a democracy, which started in 1787 or an oligarchy, which is winning. The nonunion people, like Trump and Musk, have most all the tools in their pockets to destroy our unions. They have money, they have the courts, they have law enforcement, they have the media, and 50 percent of workers that don’t know this don’t know the history of the working class people. This is the perfect storm to lose all the gains workers have made whether they’re union or not, even our Social Security and Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. So, now we will have to go way back to the late 1920s and ‘30s and dig up the old labor party books. One book, written in 1964, has the information, The Rebel Voices, an IWW Anthology by Joyce L. Kornbluh, educator, activist, and advocate. The history of our labor...
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