Supreme Court Advises Corporations: 'Buying Politicians? Sky's the Limit!'

On Thursday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority lifted limits on corporate campaign spending. Politically, corporations now enjoy near-absolute power, providing only that they can achieve consensus. The decision comes 194 years after Thomas Jefferson urged America to
crush the corporations.

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviews constitutional scholar Jamin Raskin on the implications of this decision.

Dr. Raskin is Professor of Constitutional Law at American University. He also serves in the Maryland State Senate.

Dr. Raskin is the author of Overruling democracy: the Supreme Court vs. the American people.

By wesler1 at 2010-01-22 16:07

Peak Oil

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Global Warming

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James Hansen, the NASA physicist whom Bush tried to silence, predicts we are nearing a global warming "tipping point." Click here for a primer on global warming.

Nuclear Power

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