Elizabeth Warren on the relationship between the Supreme Court and the Chamber of Commerce

http://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/ACSSpeech_ElizabethWarren.pdf

http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/sen-warren-blasts-pro-corporate-trend-of-federal-courts
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The federal bench with the backing of lots of money from corporate America is unsurprisingly increasingly favorable to corporate interests and that fact is not likely to change unless balance is brought to the courts, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said at the 2013 ACS National Convention.

“Here in Washington, power is not balanced,” Warren said on the opening day of the 2013 ACS Convention. “Instead, power is becoming more concentrated on one side. There are powerful, deep-pocketed corporate interests lined up to fight to protect their privilege and to resist any change that would limit corporate excesses.”

“Data on the Supreme Court in recent years shows a heavy pro-corporate tilt,” Warren said. “The five conservative justices currently sitting on the Supreme Court are in the top ten most pro-business justices in a half century ….”

And the win-rate for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as this blog has noted often, continues to increase.

“Follow this pro-business trend to its logical conclusion, and sooner or later you'll end up with a Supreme Court that functions as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chamber of Commerce,” Warren said.