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now Supreme Court has got more more corporate a
over the years in fact no was a famous memorandum home emo
by Lewis Powell back in the early 1970s
any road to Chamber of Commerce saying hey you know what the chamber and
pro-business groups pro corporate group
should do more to take over different parts of society
including universities the government and
the Supreme Court makes a bother with a brilliant idea
he took that young lawyer who wrote a memo
depends on your definition I'm young it said
are mister pal you know what up with you on the Supreme Court yourself that was
could be it
and lose power helped the pass
to critical decision the 1976 and 1978
but we will air the said money is speech enhance
the first amendment right to spend money in politics and then Belotti former so
the
First National Bank a Boston which said that corporations have the same
speech rights had hence the right to spend money in politics
that actual human beings do there the inalienable right to spend money
in politics which is out wages and ever since
the supreme court has got more and more corporate now
don't take my word for let's look at what's happened recently
and I'll give you some a charge to show you in fact
what is happening in these years for small in this year in this term
so for the Supreme Court has released eighty the
opinions in how many of them that involve the chamber commerce
the day back the Chamber of Commerce's position
7 aggravate so
if the chamber commerce wants it done the Supreme Court
almost always applies them these days now wasn't always so
human subjects Supreme Court that we considered conservative back today
were not nearly as pro corporate as the Supreme Court
so let me show you the burger court no
only side of the chamber commerce forty-three percent of the time
and back then it was considered a very conservative court or getting more and
more conservative
rehnquist definitely a conservative court sided with the Chamber of Commerce
a majority in time fifty-six percent of the time but says
Roberts and Alito have joined the supreme court it is now
overwhelming seventy-two percent of the time
the Chamber of Commerce in corporate America a multinational corporations
alright says the balance is gone
hey you know corporate interest could be right from time to time of course
public interest could also be right from time to time but that's not how they see
the real world they see it as
the rebuttable presumption is that the Chamber of Commerce
and multinational corporations are right paying you really gonna have to go out
your way
to prove otherwise now let's break down the individual justices
they give you a sense %uh the stories I see little bit more depressing
than a even the overall number shows you
because when you look at it of course the conservative justices as you'll see
here
are very much in favor Chamber of Commerce Alito is that a
whopping the seventy-six percent there
Schooley a 74 can be sorry for Robert 73
Thomas every two nobody surprised by that but looking Kagan was supposed to
be
a liberal justice put in there by President Obama
a majority of the time she also size with corporations
53 per server type sorta my or also put on by Obama
50 percent briar forty-eight percent
in ginsburg 44 percent not a single justice
even the most quote-unquote liberal justices both the Chamber of Commerce
less than forty four percent of the time that's an amazing number
they're supposed to be a bounce like a while the right-wing believes the
corporations are always right
the left wing looks out for the public interest so often they will side with
public interest groups et cetera no not really
and what I tell you about Obama's Supreme Court Justice
yes on many issues that are social they're very good
and yes there women he got the check out that box in yes or my hours Latino
and that's great it's progress in love its a in its own right great
but as far as what are they brag about in 10 bomb I nelson
he bragged the don't worry their pro-business
and Kagan yes you work in government but she also worked in corporate America so
did
so my or she represented those people so she is great empathy for her former
clients a lotta ways
it's at least a way of thinking about it the people in front of her
might not be a former client on that given day but she worked in that world
that's why the 50 percent I'm or more
they bought with corporate america and when you have the right wing
putting the gas pedal all the way down any of the left-wing
not doing the opposite but oftentimes helping them what you have
a supremely corporate
Supreme Court which means that if you want to do
real change in america and its actually
fundamental change even if congress passes it
what's the Supreme Court minute well just like they did in Citizens United
they're gonna say no sorry you can put any limits
on money in politics my corporate friends will get to spend
all unlimited money in politics and they'll get the by all love you
as they basically bought us and by the way how was the court
bought well once you buy a politician at the national level
he's the one who gets 0.0 the Supreme Court justices
and certainly the republicans love though for very right-wing justices
and pro corporate just as they put in but even the democrats often brag about
don't worry
their pro-business now luckily there is one thing in american system
about the supreme court and that is the United States Constitution
if you put an amendment in the Constitution saying wait a minute
corporations don't have inalienable rights
granted by their creator were their Creator
no they don't have the rights are human beings they're not human beings then %uh
flesh-and-blood
you know it to have those special rights plus kid
their protection unlimited liability so they they have even more rights than
human beings
that's outrageous no they don't get to spend unlimited money in politics
and yes what we should do is make sure
that we publicly financed elections so that our politicians
are not bought willy nilly by corporations or incredibly rich people
by the Koch brothers or Bloomberg warsaw rose
doesn't matter if you're on the left or right the only thing about the Supreme
Court
is that amendment to the Constitution
wall dash pack dot com list that's exactly what what I want to do
if you join us and we fight together we can do it
every generation of americans as amended the United States Constitution
except one us its our turn
and by the way it's also given how stacked the Supreme Court in favor
corporation it's our only alternative
if we don't do it who's gonna do it it's gotta be us
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