Posts tagged Supreme Court
Holding Politicians Accountable
…it’s clear that the Court is simultaneously making it easier to buy an election and harder to vote in an election.
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
Today’s Pearls before Swine comic is perfect. Check it out in your Sunday newspaper.
Notorious RBG strikes again: http://bit.ly/XxDJws
“You know we have a great tradition in our country of justices who disagree with the Court’s opinion, explaining why they disagree. Many of those dissents are now unquestionably the law of the land.” -RBG
The Roberts court has sided with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce 71 percent of the time when the powerful business lobby formally involves itself in a case
Welp.
All elected officials would lead happier lives and be better able to perform their public responsibilities if they did not have to spend so much time raising money.
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has some thoughts on money in politics. In the New York Times: “But there was a hint of anger in some of his remarks when I went to see him last week in his Supreme Court chambers. He said the court had made a disastrous wrong turn in its recent string of campaign finance rulings.”
Politico Magazine: What John Roberts Doesn’t Get About Corruption
“McCutcheon v. FEC, the landmark case that threw out aggregate limits on campaign spending last week, Chief Justice John Roberts made clear that for the majority of this current Supreme Court, corruption means quid pro quo corruption. In other words, if it’s not punishable by a bribery statute, it’s not corruption. This is a reasonable mistake to make at a dinner party. But it’s a disastrous mistake to make for democracy, when the stakes are so high.”
NASCAR drivers wear the corporate logos of their sponsors on their suits. The justices who sided with plutocracy ought to wear sponsorship logos on their robes, too.