TYT: Really Depressing News About The Supreme Court (And How To Change It)

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How often do the United States Supreme Court justices vote in favor of corporate interests, specifically the Chamber Of Commerce? What about the supposedly liberal justices appointed by President Obama like Sotomayor and Kagan? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

Read more about this story here from IAN MILLHISER at ThinkProgress: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/13/3398661/supreme-court-ruled-in-favor-of-the-nations-top-corporate-interest-group-in-7-of-8-cases-this-term/

[dballance]

1. Support MovetoAmend.org - They are well-organized and making strides.

Move to Amend (movetoamend.org) is a grass-roots organization that is making great strides state by state.

sign their petition: http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition

on edit - MTA's proposed amendment:

House Joint Resolution 29 introduced February 14, 2013
Section 1. (Artificial Entities Such as Corporations Do Not Have Constitutional Rights)

The rights protected by the Constitution of the United States are the rights of natural persons only.

Artificial entities established by the laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign state shall have no rights under this Constitution and are subject to regulation by the People, through Federal, State, or local law.

The privileges of artificial entities shall be determined by the People, through Federal, State, or local law, and shall not be construed to be inherent or inalienable.

Section 2. (Money is Not Free Speech)

Federal, State, and local government shall regulate, limit, or prohibit contributions and expenditures, including a candidate's own contributions and expenditures, to ensure that all citizens, regardless of their economic status, have access to the political process, and that no person gains, as a result of their money, substantially more access or ability to influence in any way the election of any candidate for public office or any ballot measure.

Federal, State, and local government shall require that any permissible contributions and expenditures be publicly disclosed.

The judiciary shall not construe the spending of money to influence elections to be speech under the First Amendment.

[ctsnowman]

2. If money = speech

then we are not born with equal rights.

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3. Don't worry, when Obama gets his TPP passed the Dancing Supremes will be obsolete.

The TPP has set up tribunals where corporations can file law suits against entire nations if the country passes laws that cause their corporate profits to decline. So the corporations wont be bribing Supreme Court Justices anymore. They wont need to. Any corporation can just get TPP tribunals to force countries to do their bidding. It's a win-win for, well just corporations and a handful of rich old guys.

[Dustlawyer]

4. K&R! I will keep saying it, the only way to fix most of our problems is to fight and gain Publicly

Funded Elections! We take the money out = taking out corporate control over our government!

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