Monday, July 04, 2011

Has the Supreme Court become so tainted with a Plutocratic Agenda it is an enemy to the citizens of the USA?

It is one thing entirely for the USA Supreme Court to make a ruling that assails Privacy Rights for the purpose of National Security and then have that information misused for political reasons or commercial reasons.  It is quite another thing to 'trend the law' to end Privacy Rights, especially in favor of commercial interests.  That is exactly what the USA Supreme Court did with several cases in recent years. 

The "San Francisco Chronicle" notes some of it here:

Calvin Coolidge (click title to entry - thank you) once said that the business of America is business. More recently, it's also been the chief business of the nation's highest court.
In class actions against Walmart and AT&T, damage suits against drug manufacturers and fraud suits against mutual funds, the Supreme Court's five-member conservative majority issued rulings that insulated corporations from claims by employees, consumers and shareholders.
And in cases involving freedom of expression, another major theme of the just-completed 2010-11 term, the winners included video game sellers in California, pharmaceutical companies in Vermont and privately financed political candidates in Arizona, some of them business-supported.
"This is probably the most pro-business term that there's been since the 1930s," said Erwin Chemerinsky, the law school dean at UC Irvine....
I don't care if there is a majority of decisions makers on the court that sees the USA consumer as less than a citizen when their privacy rights are concerned.  This is impeachable as it is moving the law away from potecting the citizen in favor of 'financial interests of companies' and that is the way I see it, as a citizen in the USA for all my life.  It is PROTECTIONIST court decisions and it abandons the rights of citizens.

The issue of the NRA is a separate entry.

In the article above it is stated by the US Chamber of Commerce that the court's record on business is mixed.  But, the voting of those that vote to favor the Plutocracy is not.  The decisions regarding 'immigration' when it comes to ILLEGAL business practices are very clear.  Illegal immigration has always benefited business as it keeps down labor costs, obstructs unions from doing business and holds down the average wage in the USA.  Any Supreme Court justice that would assail established immigration law to benefit dirt cheap labor would be easily impeachable.  The four "Republican Fringe Justices" consistently oppose the citizen and the one Conservative  Justice actually brings a 'thought process' to the decision making.  That is the radicalized Right Wing Court as it exists today and it is 'anti-citizen' in favor of profiteers and plutocrats. 

I thought economic policy was dominated by the legislature of the USA, not 'Lunatic Fringe Activist Judges from the Right Wing political party."