How the U.S. Supreme Court Unleashed a Corporate Criminal Takeover of This Country

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How the U.S. Supreme Court Unleashed a Corporate Criminal Takeover of This Country

Because of key decisions by the court equating money with free speech, our political system is now overrun with grifters, con artists, and career criminals.

THOM HARTMANN, Common Dreams

September 23, 2022

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/23/how-us-supreme-court-unleashed-corporate-criminal-takeover-country

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Republicans in the Senate yesterday killed legislation passed through the House that would require “dark money” to be publicly disclosed: not a single Republican voted for it, although every Democrat in attendance did.

Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition, we learned Wednesday, is going to spend $42 million on the midterm elections, focusing on flipping evangelical Hispanics toward the GOP.

Leonard Leo, head of The Federalist Society so famous for providing Trump and McConnell with rightwing judges to pack federal courts and the Supreme Court, recently received a $1.6 billion contribution, tax-free.

So much money is sloshing around in our political system — both what we know of and the billions in truly dark money that we know nothing about — that honest politicians are buried and actual criminals are stepping up.

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[Chainfire]

1. It is the best government big money can buy.

[WestMichRad]

2. No, it is the government that big money has bought.

“Best” isn’t applicable here.

[Turbineguy]

3. They will not be satisfied until they destroy the Republic

and then they will blame somebody else.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. The Supremely Religious Court wants a theocracy

That way they can be supreme Imam and dictate moral law from behind black robes and superstitiouns.

[OMGWTF]

5. Expand the Extreme Court back into being the Supreme Count.

One-third of SCOTUS is there because of the TRAITOR twice-impeached cheater president. How TF is that okay?

[Delmette2.0]

6. How is donating to the Supreme Court or the Justices legal??