Can't We Just Say the Roberts Court Is Corrupt?

[ashling]

Even in the absence of what Justice Roberts narrowly defines as "quid pro quo corruption," a court that consistently decides all relevant cases on behalf of corporate interests - most recently McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission - undermines its own legitimacy as well as the Constitution.


You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.
But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there's
no occasion to.

Humbert Wolf, from The Uncelestial City (1930)

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/22942-cant-we-just-say-the-roberts-court-is-corrupt

[pscot]

1. You just did.

[blm]

2. It's a Pro-fascist, Opus-Dei Court.

Corrupt to the core.

[BlueCaliDem]

3. ABSOLUTELY!

[former9thward]

4. Given you avatar did you call Roberts corrupt when he declared the ACA Constitutional?

[liberal N proud]

5. You may until they pass a ruling saying you don't have enough free speech er: cash to do so

[Enthusiast]

6. The Roberts court is clearly corrupt.

And their rulings have allowed corruption to spread like wildfire, from sea to shining sea.

[Spazito]

7. I think it would be more accurate to call it the Koch Court...

given their decisions.

[RandoLoodie]

8. The institution of the US Supreme Court has no credibility

after Bush v. Gore.