By Daniel Tencer Sunday, December 19th, 2010 -- 4:58 pm
The Supreme Court Court now sides with the US Chamber of Commerce nearly two-thirds of the time according to statistics from a recent study.
A study has found that the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has undergone a fundamental shift in its outlook, ruling in favor of businesses much more often than previous courts.
According to the Northwestern University study, commissioned for the New York Times, the Roberts court has sided with business interests in 61 percent of relevant cases, compared to 46 percent in the last five years of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who passed away in 2005.
Meanwhile, a second study, from the Constitutional Accountability Center, has charted the growing influence of the US Chamber of Commerce on the courts . . .
According to the second study, the Roberts Supreme Court has sided with the Chamber 68 percent of the time, up from 56 percent under the Rehnquist court, and noticeably higher than the 43 percent during the relevant part of Chief Justice Warren Burger's court, which ended in 1986.
Robin Conrad, VP of the Chamber's litigation said that her group's growing influence is not ideological, but rather the result of the chamber's ability to argue cases better, as well as a shift in the cases it chooses to support. She said:
Why have we been successful?” I’d like to think it’s because of the quality of the arguments and the briefs we present to the court.
But Doug Kendall of the Constitutional Accountability Center told the Times his group's study was evidence that the court has grown more corporate-friendly . . . He also said his study showed “a sharp ideological divide that did not exist before 2005," when Roberts ascended to the chief justice's chair.
Kendall says conservative-leaning judges are more likely to side with a conservative opinion -- and liberal judges with a liberal opinion -- than they have been in the past.
The chamber itself has benefited from the pro-corporate environment on the country's highest bench. This year, following the Citizens United ruling that upended nearly a century of campaign spending restrictions on corporations and unions . . .
In all, shadow groups unofficially campaigning in the mid-term elections spent a quarter of a billion dollars on their efforts, a phenomenon possibly only thanks to Citizens United.
Rightardia would point out that the Republicans controlled the white Hose for 20 of the past 30 years. Therefore, Republicans have been able to fill the Supreme Court and the federal courts with conservative judges. This is one reason why presidential elections are so important.
Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/supreme-court-tool-corporate-interests/
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A study has found that the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has undergone a fundamental shift in its outlook, ruling in favor of businesses much more often than previous courts.
According to the Northwestern University study, commissioned for the New York Times, the Roberts court has sided with business interests in 61 percent of relevant cases, compared to 46 percent in the last five years of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who passed away in 2005.
Meanwhile, a second study, from the Constitutional Accountability Center, has charted the growing influence of the US Chamber of Commerce on the courts . . .
According to the second study, the Roberts Supreme Court has sided with the Chamber 68 percent of the time, up from 56 percent under the Rehnquist court, and noticeably higher than the 43 percent during the relevant part of Chief Justice Warren Burger's court, which ended in 1986.
Robin Conrad, VP of the Chamber's litigation said that her group's growing influence is not ideological, but rather the result of the chamber's ability to argue cases better, as well as a shift in the cases it chooses to support. She said:
Why have we been successful?” I’d like to think it’s because of the quality of the arguments and the briefs we present to the court.
But Doug Kendall of the Constitutional Accountability Center told the Times his group's study was evidence that the court has grown more corporate-friendly . . . He also said his study showed “a sharp ideological divide that did not exist before 2005," when Roberts ascended to the chief justice's chair.
Kendall says conservative-leaning judges are more likely to side with a conservative opinion -- and liberal judges with a liberal opinion -- than they have been in the past.
The chamber itself has benefited from the pro-corporate environment on the country's highest bench. This year, following the Citizens United ruling that upended nearly a century of campaign spending restrictions on corporations and unions . . .
In all, shadow groups unofficially campaigning in the mid-term elections spent a quarter of a billion dollars on their efforts, a phenomenon possibly only thanks to Citizens United.
Rightardia would point out that the Republicans controlled the white Hose for 20 of the past 30 years. Therefore, Republicans have been able to fill the Supreme Court and the federal courts with conservative judges. This is one reason why presidential elections are so important.
Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/supreme-court-tool-corporate-interests/
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