Report: The Supreme Courts Bends Over for Corporate Money

Well, yeah, who didnt know that?  But the Roberts court apparently is so bent over that they cant see the fraud for their ass.

Linda Greenhouse revisits a prime example of the 1% Court in action

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In an excellent column this week, Linda Greenhouse, former Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times revisits a case, Knox v. Service Employees International Union, which Alliance for Justice has been following closely, but much of the media have ignored.

Justice Samuel Alito

Knox illustrates both how the current majority goes out of its way to favor big business, a theme of our most recent First Monday documentary, Unequal Justice, and also the extreme judicial activism of the court’s extreme right – another issue we’ve followed closely.

Greenhouse also cites Prof. Benjamin Sachs who, on this Blog and elsewhere, has argued that, in a post-Citizens United world, the majority’s view gives unions notably less “free speech” than corporations.