4 Recent Supreme Court Rulings Show Which Way the Wind Is Blowing: Corporations Are Getting Whatever They Want | Alternet

4 Recent Supreme Court Rulings Show Which Way the Wind Is Blowing: Corporations Are Getting Whatever They Want | Alternet

Corporate America’s power and influence doesn’t just come from big-money campaign donations and lobbying campaigns. It also flows through the federal judiciary, which is why the U.S. Senate’s Republicans have prevented most of the White House’s judicial nominees from being seated—even though Obama’s nominees are predominantly centrist.

Take a look at Justice Ginsburg’s forceful dissents in most of these cases. They show what a far more reasonable judiciary could be like if there were more judges with civil rights backgrounds. But especially with the Supreme Court's 5-4 right-wing majority on a great many cases, the assault by big business and large corporations on ordinary people continues.