The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy -- How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Our Elections

[babsbunny]

http://www.alternet.org/books/148608/the_supreme_court_sold_out_our_democracy_--_how_to_fight_the_corporate_takeover_of_our_elections/

Historian Thom Hartmann discusses the history of corruption that led up to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.
October 25, 2010 |

Election 2010 is being fought on a wave of campaign dollars unleashed on the American people by the Supreme Court in its Citizens United v. FEC decision. The court, led by a majority of staunch right-wingers, struck down limits on third-party “electioneering” ads based on a tortured interpretation of the First Amendment guarantee of free speech.


Thomas Mann, a Brookings Institution scholar, wrote that the decision “will likely go down in history as one of the Supreme Court's most egregious exercises of judicial activism.“ Rep. Peter Fazio, D-Oregon, told the Huffington Post last week that “the Supreme Court has done a tremendous disservice to the United States of America… They have done more to undermine our democracy with their Citizens United decision than all of the Republican operatives in the world in this campaign.” DeFazio said he is “investigating articles of impeachment" against Chief Justice John Roberts for committing perjury when he promised he wouldn't be a judicial activist during his Senate confirmation hearings.

[polichick]

1. A couple of the justices ARE "Republican operatives" - don't let the robes fool ya! nt

[handmade34]

2. must fight

corporate takeover

[Doctor_J]

3. Mods - please merge these

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=566589&mesg_id=566589

[Bitwit1234]

4. After all the also unleashed George W Bush on the country

and if humanly possible we should all try to find a reason to get rid of them. Why did Clarence Thomas run in the early morning darkness. That fascinates me why in the world would he run in darkness in the early morning. NO body does that.