Friday, January 29, 2010

Supreme Court Decision On Corporate Lobbying Is Misguided At Best And Fraudulent At Worst

I don't have any time for at least a few weeks to talk about this recent decision but we have hammered corporate personhood as a fraud on here many times. This most recent decision is in large part based on a Supreme Court case which I believe could very well have originally been based on fraud back in the 1800s. I have done a lot of investigation into this issue and will be discussing it in the future. As I am with a few Congresspersons. But, the President reprimanded the Supreme Court in his SOTU address. I believe the President was more than right to attack the competency of the Supreme Court in this case. But he didn't go far enough.

Most people incorrectly assume the Supreme Court determines the law of the land. That is false. Our Supreme Court has stepped up to place itself as the ultimate decider of what is legal and what is illegal. Arguments against judicial activism started as far back as Thomas Jefferson. Our Constitution and our form of government does NOT necessarily defer legality to the Supreme Court. Were that to be the case, we would not have three equal branches of government to counteract each other. Judicial activism can and has been challenged legally as our system of laws allows for via a defined process of Constitutional Review. It's simply not done that often. It's now time to reject corporate personhood via Constitutional Review, an amendment to the Constitution or via new laws.

We will talk more about this in the future. But until then, the Supreme Court has stepped well beyond its role on this recent decision. A completely ridiculous ruling of ideology and a repudiation of common sense. The Supreme Court has no legal or moral authority in this case in my estimation and has stepped way beyond its powers. And while I am not a Constitutional scholar, I have relied on many who are and my own education on this issue to believe I say this with a fair amount of authority that this decision was one of learned idiots. And that it can and should be overturned by our Congress. and the President.

If they don't seek to overturn or ameliorate the situation, we know they are perpetuating a fraud driven by personal gain and greed.

posted by TimingLogic at 12:13 PM