The Court has become a handmaiden to the corporate elites
JIM HIGHTOWER for Creators.Com
Likewise, calling a small group of partisan lawyers a "supreme" court doesn't make it one. There's nothing supreme about the six-pack of far-right-wing political activists who are presently soiling our people's ideals of justice by proclaiming their own antidemocratic biases to be the law of the land.
On issues of economic
fairness, women's rights, racial justice, corporate supremacy, environmental
protection, theocratic rule and other fundamentals, these unelected,
black-robed extremists are imposing an illegitimate elitist agenda on America
that the people do not want and ultimately will not tolerate.
Indeed, the imperiousness of the six ruling
judges has already caused the court's public approval rating to plummet, to a
mere 38%, an historic low that ranks down there with former President Donald
Trump, and threatens to go as low as Congress.
This has led to a flurry of officials attesting to the honesty and political impartiality of the reigning supremes. Unfortunately for the court, these ardent defenders were the six culprits themselves.
The "integrity of the judiciary is in my
bones," pontificated Neil Gorsuch, who now stands accused of having lied
to senators to win his lifetime appointment.
We don't have to accept rule by an illegitimate
court.
"(We are not) a bunch of partisan
hacks," wailed Amy Coney Barrett, a partisan extremist jammed onto the
court in a partisan ploy by Trump in the last few hours of his presidency.
"Judges are not politicians,"
protested John Roberts, who became Chief Justice because he was a rabid
political lawyer who pushed the Supreme Court in 2000 to reject the rights of
voters and install George W. Bush as president.
As many of its own members privately admit,
Congress has become a pay-to-play lawmaking casino — closed to commoners but
offering full-service access to corporate powers.
But the Supreme Court is another government entity that's even more aloof from workaday people — and it has become a handmaiden to the corporate elites trying to increase their dominance over us.
The six-member, right-wing majority on this secretive powerhouse now routinely
vetoes efforts by workers, environmentalist, students, local officials, voters
and all others who try to rein in corporate greed and abuses.
Appointed for lifetime terms, this autocratic tribune takes pride in being sealed off from democracy, even bragging that they make rulings without being influenced by special interests. But wait — in makeup and ideology, today's court majority is a special interest, for it consists of corporate and right-wing lawyers who've obtained their wealth and position by loyally serving corporate power.
And far from now
being isolated from moneyed elites, the judges regularly socialize with them
and attend their closed-door political meetings.
There's even a special little club, called The Supreme Court Historical Society, that frequently reveals the cozy, symbiotic relationship that exists between today's judicial and corporate cliques.
Such
giants as Chevron, Goldman Sachs, AT&T and Home Depot pay millions of
dollars to this clubby society, gaining notice by and the appreciation of the
supremes. And, yes, these special interest gifts to the court are gratefully
accepted, even when the corporations have active cases before the court,
seeking favorable rulings from the very judges they're glad-handing at Society
soirees.
Of course, the judges insist there's no
conflict of interest, because this access to them is "open to all."
Sure — all who can pay $25,000 and up to get inside! Yet the clueless judges
wonder why their credibility is in the ditch. Remember, in America, The People
are supreme! We don't have to accept rule by an illegitimate court. For reform,
go to FixTheCourt.com.
Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and
author of the books "Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go
With The Flow" (2008) and "There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road
But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion"
(1998). Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf
of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families,
environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.
