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Fri Dec 19, 2014, 03:34 PM Dec 2014

Papantonio: How To Buy A Legal System

The midterm elections didn’t just hand Congress over to the Republican Party – they also gave a host of courthouses all over the country to big business. Corporate money was the big winner in judicial elections.

America's Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, and attorney David Haynes explain what that means for our civil justice system.

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Papantonio: How To Buy A Legal System (Original Post) GoLeft TV Dec 2014 OP
Thanks for great video...Another way is to BUY a TPP private tribunal system excempt from Faryn Balyncd Dec 2014 #1
, blkmusclmachine Dec 2014 #2
SO, OBVIOUSLY WE NEED TO DO AWAY WITH ELECTED JUDGES, BUT IN THE MEAN TIME... drynberg Dec 2014 #3

Faryn Balyncd

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1. Thanks for great video...Another way is to BUY a TPP private tribunal system excempt from
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 03:50 PM
Dec 2014


...appeal, and keep it secret until fast tracked through without input from democratically elected representatives, that allow the purchasing multinational corporation to sue & bankrupt any pesky little governmental entity that has the audacity to attempt to do their constitutional duty to protect the general welfare by passing environmental, worker safety, or food labeling laws that happen to impact on the bottom line of the multinational corporations that wrote and purchased the TPP and bought the private tribunal system exempt from judiucial appeal.









drynberg

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3. SO, OBVIOUSLY WE NEED TO DO AWAY WITH ELECTED JUDGES, BUT IN THE MEAN TIME...
Sat Dec 20, 2014, 09:08 AM
Dec 2014

How about having a panel of balanced political group members to decide if a case offers a conflict of interest and is cause to have the given judge "sit this one out"? Could this happen? Could it happen quicker than stopping elections of judges or even over turning Federal Judicial decision like Citizens United? Please input your solution, either in agreement or another solution, as this has to change, no?

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