Business looks to Kavanaugh to extend Supreme Court hot streak

[turbinetree]

By LORRAINE WOELLERT 08/15/2018 05:09 AM EDT

Abortion rights and civil liberties have so far dominated the fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, but his confirmation would mean a victory for another constituency: business.

Industry groups, led by the Chamber of Commerce, have spent decades bringing lawsuits and filing briefs to the top court in hopes of reining in regulatory power and winning rulings favorable to business. And court-watchers believe Kavanaugh, who was recommended to President Donald Trump by the conservative Federalist Society and worked in the pro-business Bush administration, would help industry continue its hot streak at the court.

The Supreme Court last term was the most business-friendly in modern memory, according to the Constitutional Accountability Center, a progressive public-interest law firm. The group concluded in a new report that Kavanaugh would tilt the court even more in business’ favor, noting that the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts already has sided with the Chamber, which the center views as a proxy for all business interests, in more than 70 percent of relevant cases since 2006.

That’s in contrast to the Chamber’s 56 percent win record under Roberts’ predecessor, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and 43 percent under Chief Justice Warren Burger, according to the center.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/15/kavanaugh-business-supreme-court-confirm-777515

This isn't a "hot streak" it is a demise of what is suppose to be citizen government if this asshole gets on the bench with the other Federalist Society assholes......................they hate the Constitution




November 2018 cannot get here fast enough............................vote

[Turbineguy]

1. They can never leave well-enough alone.

When you're a republican, you can never be too greedy.

[turbinetree]

2. They never want to do that leave it alone.............

I am reading a book now called "Can Democracy Survive Globalization, by Robert Kutter" and he pretty much explains how after WWII how some countries made it a pact that the worker would be included in what happens to a country when it comes to wages, benefits and such, and then he explains what happens when finance gets played into the mix with corporations, unrelenting ambition to go after wages and benefits and ...........to blame, the workers, and this character trying to get on the bench will make life harder for everyone in this country, he sides with banks and corporations a lot....................

[librechik]

3. free to be misogynistic and suppress wages for a few more years--

maybe forever!

[turbinetree]

4. Exactly...................that's how they operate, get into the system, legislative, courts and then

blame...................forever................

[Turbineguy]

5. Well, these revolutions in the last few centuries

have been messy. But those in charge let things get that way and then ignored the warning signs.

[turbinetree]

6. Yepper, spot on................and I believe that this is going to get messy going forward