Thom Hartmann: It's time to Occupy the Courts

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 05:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zlg8xQpXEQ   Posted on YouTube: November 01, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 266   Posted on DU: November 01, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 1069

 
With Occupy Wall Street in full swing - it's time to begin a new occupation...of our nation's court system. Today we learned that corporations are spending millions and millions of dollars meddling in judicial elections around the nation. In fact - a new report by the Brennan Center for Justice, the NYU School of Law, and other independent judicial watchdogs - finds that just three corporate lobbyist groups - the Ohio Chamber of Commerce - the Business Council of Alabama - and the Illinois Civil Justice League - have outspent the ENTIRE labor movement in judicial elections around the nation. Those groups alone spent over $3 million last year making sure that corporate-friendly justices find their way onto benches everywhere. There's long been a debate over what kind of judge is best - one elected by the people as most state judges are - or one appointed by the President as most federal judges are. But the truth is - now that corporations are allowed to spend unlimited amounts in our elections - both types of judges have been corrupted - transformed from professional jurists into corporate shills.

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[suede1]

1. Hope this catches on!

[Marazinia]

2. Ick

Do they make portable showers to wash the sleaze off afterward?

[JJW]

3. SCOTUS is a joke

ever since they stole the 2000 election, they made themselves irrelevant.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Stacking the deck from the top down...bastards.

[BrendaBrick]

5. K&R