From United RE:Public a graph showing how the 1% of the 1% use their money to drown out the needs of the 99%.
Showing posts with label Citizens United. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Citizens United. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Clarence Thomas Conflict of Interest
Anita Hill was right on when she said Clarence Thomas engaged in "behavior that is unbefitting an individual who will be a member of the Court." Anita Hill passed a lie detector test and Mr. Thomas declined to take the polygraph. Clarence Thomas needs to recuse himself from this case."The appearance of a conflict of interest merits recusal under federal law. From what we have already seen, the line between your impartiality and you and your wife’s financial stake in the overturn of health care reform is blurred. Your spouse is advertising herself as a lobbyist who has ‘experience and connections’ and appeals to clients who want a particular decision – they want to overturn health care reform. Moreover, your failure to disclose Ginni Thomas’s receipt of $686,589 from the Heritage Foundation, a prominent opponent of health care reform, between 2003 and 2007 has raised great concern.
This is not the first case where your impartiality was in question. As Common Cause points out, you ‘participated in secretive political strategy sessions, perhaps while the case was pending, with corporate leaders whose political aims were advanced by the [5-4] decision’ on the Citizens United case.
Given these facts, there is a strong conflict between the Thomas household’s financial gain through your spouse’s activities and your role as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court."
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Thank you, Anita Hill
Hermann Cain is embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal and the loud and obnoxious right wing is rallying to Mr. Cain's defense. There have been calls for the women involved to come forward, I hope these ladies realize what they are in for. I've been remembering the Clarence Thomas hearings of 1991. In 1991 I was a stay at home dad with a 5 year old and a 1 year old, and watched the hearings whenever possible. I was impressed with Ms. Anita Hill. She was called to testify before the nation concerning what she regarded as sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas or at the very least;
Today, Clarence Thomas speaks at Koch Brothers fundraisers and has failed to disclose 1.6 million dollars from a conservative action committee paid to his wife. Recently, 20 democrats signed a letter to the justice department calling for an investigation of Clarence Thomas's violation of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. In my opinion Ms. Anita Hill was both correct and prophetic when she said Mr. Thomas engaged in "behavior that is unbefitting an individual who will be a member of the Court."
Meanwhile, Ms. Anita Hill is a professor, teaching, law, women's studies and social policy at Brandeis University. Ms. Hill also travels around the country speaking at fundraisers for Planned Parenthood.
Wiki article on the Clarence Thomas hearings
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It was clear to me that she was speaking from the heart. Ms. Hill was not treated kindly by many on the committee and was treated badly by the press. I was completely dumbfounded when Clarence Thomas was confirmed, I couldn't believe that senators could dismiss her testimony. Ms. Hill also was not the only relevant witness, but the other women did not testify. Of course, Mr. Thomas, just like Hermann Cain denied all allegations and Ms. Hill endured a great deal of undeserved abuse. A book full of lies was printed and published in order to smear her; "The Real Anita Hill" by David Brock." David Brock, later recanted his book of lies and apologized. You can read about Anita Hill's ordeal in her book: "Speaking Truth to Power" by Anita Hill. Would we still be suffering under Citizens United if Clarence Thomas hadn't been confirmed?"behavior that is unbefitting an individual who will be a member of the Court."
Today, Clarence Thomas speaks at Koch Brothers fundraisers and has failed to disclose 1.6 million dollars from a conservative action committee paid to his wife. Recently, 20 democrats signed a letter to the justice department calling for an investigation of Clarence Thomas's violation of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. In my opinion Ms. Anita Hill was both correct and prophetic when she said Mr. Thomas engaged in "behavior that is unbefitting an individual who will be a member of the Court."
Meanwhile, Ms. Anita Hill is a professor, teaching, law, women's studies and social policy at Brandeis University. Ms. Hill also travels around the country speaking at fundraisers for Planned Parenthood.
Wiki article on the Clarence Thomas hearings
Sign the petition making the DOJ investigate Clarence Thomas' ethics violations
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Corporations are People?
"It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of humanHe continued referring to the framers of the US Constitution:Image via Wikipediabeings, to be sure, and their “personhood” often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established." Justice John Paul Stevens in dissent to Citizens United
"The Framers thus took it as a given that corporations could be comprehensively regulated in the service of the public welfare. Unlike our colleagues, they had little trouble distinguishing corporations from human beings, and when they constitutionalized the right to free speech in the First Amendment, it was the free speech of individual Americans they had in mind."
The following Republican presidential candidates think corporations are people: Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin. These republican presidential candidates will feel right at home and have much in common with our Supreme Court Justice's Kennedy, Alito, Thomas, Scalia and Roberts, who also think corporations are people. You could say they were almost of one mind, one mind, that is evenly divided between 10 people.
MovetoAmend.org a coalition that advocates amending the Constitution to end the doctrine of corporate Personhood
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