Elizabeth Warren (correctly) Slams USSC for being "wholly owned subsidiary of big business"

[Triana]

LOS ANGELES – Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka denounced the United States Supreme Court on Sunday as a right-wing panel that serves the interests of corporate America, previewing a theme that is likely to rise in prominence with the approach of the 2016 election.

On the opening day of the AFL-CIO’s convention, Warren – the highest-profile national Democrat to address the gathering here – warned attendees of a “corporate capture of the federal courts.”

In a speech that voiced a range of widely held frustrations on the left, Warren assailed the Court as an instrument of the wealthy that regularly sides with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She cited an academic study that called the current Supreme Court’s five conservative-leaning justices among the “top 10 most pro-corporate justices in half a century.”

“You follow this pro-corporate trend to its logical conclusion, and sooner or later you’ll end up with a Supreme Court that functions as a wholly owned subsidiary of big business,” Warren said, drawing murmurs from the crowd.

She also slammed the big banks and their army of lobbyists...

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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/elizabeth-warren-supreme-court-far-right-96449.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[WillyT]

1. HUGE K & R !!!

[rhett o rick]

34. Interesting that "The Group" usually stay away from these threads.

One might think it's a conspiracy. Oops, now I did it.

[Initech]

2. Warren for president!!!

[madokie]

43. I could get behind that

Love me some Senator Warren

[lonestarnot]

44. Yes!

[Squinch]

3. KICK! I so love her!

[Scuba]

4. I love that woman!

[marmar]

5. k/r

[felix_numinous]

6. K&R Senator Warren is worth gold.

If Sen. Warren can speak the truth, then anyone can. Why are there not more who admit this truth?

[LaydeeBug]

7. She is so awesome

She might have the stuff.

[Cal33]

8. Warren is one of the few prominent Democratic politicians who has the courage to

call a spade a spade. We've had years of those fence-sitting so-called Democratic
politicians who seem to be afraid of their own shadows, and the Right-Wingers have
only gotten stronger during this time, despite the fact that they have never offered
any proposals to better the lot of the American people. All they do is to block and
destroy whatever the Democrats are trying to do for our nation.

These Ghoulish Odious Parasites (GOP) have never made any proposals because they
have nothing to offer but misery and death. They are too busy making money flow
into their own pockets through all means fair and foul, including preying upon their
own poor and elderly fellow-Americans at every opportunity possible. They are too
busy thinking of their ghoulish profits to care about anybody else.

[DissidentVoice]

24. I would genuinely be excited about a Warren/Grayson ticket!

If they would fail, it would be as DEMOCRATS, not as wannabe GOP imitators.

[Cal33]

35. I am with you all the way. We still have 3+ years to see how things will develop.

[Autumn Colors]

9. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE ......

Ms. Warren, PLEASE run for President in 2016!!!

(Alan Grayson for VP)

[meegbear]

17. NO!!!!!

I don't want to lose her as my senator!!

[DissidentVoice]

25. Understandably...

But if she could do nationally what she is doing for constituents like you...

[Autumn Colors]

36. Would Rachel Maddow be a good replacement senator?

[Triana]

10. To add to this, she also hit on the devious trade deals (TPP among them no doubt)

Warren drew some of the loudest applause of her precisely worded, sharply enunciated speech with a statement of skepticism about upcoming trade deals – debates that may pit big labor and liberal members of the Senate against the Obama administration.

“Wall Street, pharmaceuticals, telecom, big polluters and outsourcers are all salivating at the chance to rig upcoming trade deals in their favor,” Warren said. “I’ve heard people actually say that [trade deals] have to be secret because if the American people knew what was going on, they would be opposed.”

She continued: “I believe that if people would be opposed to a particular trade agreement, then that trade agreement should not happen.”

[DeSwiss]

11. ....

[adieu]

12. Advice for Ms. Warren

Don't fly in any small airplanes. Maybe not big ones either. In other words, don't give out your itinerary to anyone other than your trusted group.

[gussmith]

22. Sadly, You're Right

Does Sen. Warren have Secret Service protection?

[mountain grammy]

13. Gotta love her! Stay tough, Senator!

[Starry Messenger]

14. I wish I was at the conference.

Stupid work. Good for her, I'm happy for all the union folk who got to see her.

[blue14u]

15. Elizabeth Warren

She has my VOTE.

Please run for President Ms Warren. We need you!!!

We need you now as a matter of fact.

[HumansAndResources]

16. Sooner or Later ??? That's My Only Complaint - Love the Sentiment

Even the so-called "left" justicies are a far cry from those that ruled against "the state" and for "individual's civil rights" over and over in the 1970s. It was those rulings that ticked off the Elites, such that they pushed the no-privacy "abortion-wedge Right" and pro-prison "law-and-order Dems" to generate the rubber-stamp crowd we have now.

[blackspade]

18. K&R!

[elleng]

19. Just imagine big business' efforts to defeat her,

when she runs for POTUS!

[DissidentVoice]

23. Or even the current Democratic Party establishment!

After all, she would undo over 20 years of the DLC "retooling" the party to be "Republican lite" for the sake of "electability."

[polichick]

30. Yep - she'd do better to start a new people's party.

[hue]

20. Big K&R for words of truth & wisdom!!! Love Warren!!!

[DissidentVoice]

21. If there is any way to save the Democratic Party

If there is any way - and at the moment I am not sanguine about the prospects, as the DLC has infected the party, perhaps irreparably - to save the Democratic Party, it will be people like Elizabeth Warren and those who share her outlook that will do it.

Unfortunately, the party establishment is so obsessed with "electability," "triangulation" and "centrism" that Senator Warren's views don't get much of an airing.

[merrily]

26. True, but it's not only the SCOTUS.

[DissidentVoice]

27. It's the moneyed establishment in BOTH parties n/t

[merrily]

40. Not only the moneyed, but those who obey the moneyed establishment of the private sector

and in the Republican and Democratic Parties. (There are, after all, more than two political parties.)

Best I can tell, that covers a lot of elected officials in Washington D.C. State and local, too.

[Uncle Joe]

28. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Triana.

[LaydeeBug]

29. kick nt

[gopiscrap]

31. Good for Warren!

[polynomial]

32. Obama said about the same suff

Didn't Obama say about the same stuff...till now bomb bomb bomb bomb Syria.

For the rest of Obama's time he should send medical aid to Syria take
an account and tally the casualties so far and condemn and shame the hell out of who ever did it. Just as America keeps shaming Bush keep it going shame the Russians shame the Chinese shame anyone the uses chemical weapons on a helpless population.

Who in that country will pay for reparations IT BETTER NOT BE AMERICA!!! if we don't bomb we won't pay!! this war is a sucker punch!!!

Well at least there is a new form of health care

Did stop the Iraq war... or are we still there.

did a bail out for the largest land title fraud in history still going...

Saved GM

Flushed out the corrupt media Iraq war was a lie.

True lies to new lies new movie for Arnold.

[olegramps]

33. Life time appointments for judges is a disaster.

The Founding Fathers believed that by making life time appointments that the judges would be not be affected by politics would be free to make objective impartial decisions. Unfortunately, this has not proved to be the case. This should be totally reviewed and in my estimation the appointments should only be for a limited time or at least subject to periodic review. At the present a number of decisions are an outright scandal for their blatant partisan determinations.

[YOHABLO]

37. "Warren said, drawing murmurs from the crowd." ??

No standing ovations? I would have stood up and said Hell Yeah.

[nolabels]

39. Most of them probably were not regulars at D.U. like ya'll

Remember where a lot of people get their news is from corporate media. This vast lot of the miss and uninformed are fed their news on a strict diet which is made up of a spoon fed pablum. That great equalizer, the internet, is trying to be bottled up as we post

[nolabels]

38. And the congress is held check by corporate lobbyist who write the bills for them to push

The corporations haven't had it this good and goosed since the gilded age

[Berlum]

41. Thank you Senator Warren

excelllent - k and r.

[Jasana]

42. That my Senator!

Huge K&R.