Supreme Court Needs the Sense to Leash Corporate Political Power
John Havelock
Alaska Dispatch News
May 13, 2016
The first step in the cure for our diseased state and national electoral systems is to elect Hillary and 50 senators of her party in November. Why? Though four members of the Supreme Court realized that it was a mistake to make elections a part of our economic market system, five voted otherwise. That fifth seat is empty with the death of Justice Scalia.
There is no question that a President Trump will fill the vacancy with a Supreme Court justice who will vote to maintain the dollar-based, corporate-powered, election system, just as there is no question that President Clinton will appoint a justice committed to reverse the Citizens United case that created it. Fifty senators are needed, ready to support her choice.
Alaska Dispatch News columnist Charles Wohlforth, among others, has called for a national constitutional amendment, an extremely difficult and, in this situation, a hopeless task. Constitutional amendment proposals must get through three-fourths of the state legislatures. How did these legislators get their jobs? Each won through expertise in the money game they are being asked to toss.
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