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You are obviusly very young and naive. You are too ignorant to see throught the smoke and mirrors. If you are American and plan to remain in this country as an American, you have been sorely duped. You will never have a voice in any decision, election or legislation as of this day. You are owned and will always answer to big corporations. They will decide everything for you. Have a nice life!
LOL! You are so without a clue as to who I am and what I know about constitutional law, I'll just say goodnight.
I really wonder, given the possible implications of this ruling, can any of these justices make a ruling like this without a conflict of interest. I'm betting most of them hold stocks in large companies.
This ruling is obviously a gift to corporate America allowing them to buy whomever they want, thus rigging the system in their favor. (blah blah blah unions don't benefit as much because they have been weakened by decades of NAFTA and right to work laws). As a result theres a great potential now for more deregulation, more growth and more "too big to fail" companies. Sounds like a win for any of their stockholders.
I'd like that examined. Yes I know its weak reasoning, but I still think this is just judges ruling for their own gain.
Remember all you cons out there, I know its weak reasoning, but still shouldn't we question them?
here is what we can expect more of... a similar case to back up your point...
now these corporations will have a blank check to even help get more right wing judges on the bench.
this case is unbelievable. that the righty supreme idiots actually could not see the conflict of intrest here is un-real. that they back buying of justice.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a West Virginia judge should have disqualified himself from an appeal of a $50 million jury verdict against Massey Energy Co because the coal mining company's CEO had been a major campaign donor.
By a 5-4 vote, the justices held that West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Justice Brent Benjamin should have removed himself from deciding the case because Massey Chief Executive Don Blankenship had spent $3 million to help him get elected to the court.
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Benjamin twice was in the majority in 3-2 decisions that overturned the $50 million jury verdict against Massey in a coal contract dispute with Harman Mining.
Blankenship had earlier spent $3 million supporting Benjamin's campaign for a seat on the court while opposing the incumbent. As a judge, Benjamin refused to recuse himself from the case, saying he could be fair and impartial.
here is a puke of a righty CEO , as usual showing righty hate is what is loved by all rightys, starting the namecalling, threatening of physical violence, all the norm for a righty...
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Massey Energy figures, including Don Blankenship of Massey Energy and James "Buck" Harless (a former member of the Board of Massey Energy and an energy policy adviser during the White House transition),[24][25][26][27] have been active in West Virginia politics, including party financing.
On November 22, 2008 the Williamson (Daily News (Williamson, WV) reported that Massey CEO Don Blankenship compared the editor of the Charleston Gazette, James A. Haught, to Osama bin Laden at a public speech to the Tug Valley Mining Institute on Nov 20 [28]. In the videotaped speech, Blankenship called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Harry Reid and former Vice President Al Gore "crazies" and "greeniacs" [29]. He referred to the support of President Jimmy Carter for energy conservation in the 1970s to communism: "Buy a smaller car? Conserve? I have spent quite a bit of time in Russia and China, and that's the first stage."
On April 3, 2008, ABC News reported that CEO Blankenship attacked an ABC News cameraman at a Massey facility near Belfry, Kentucky as the camerman attempted to question Blankenship about photos published in the New York Times [30] showing Blankenship on vacation in Monaco with West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard. "If you're going to start taking pictures of me, you're liable to get shot," Blankenship stated in the video[31].
You are obviusly very young and naive. You are too ignorant to see throught the smoke and mirrors. If you are American and plan to remain in this country as an American, you have been sorely duped. You will never have a voice in any decision, election or legislation as of this day. You are owned and will always answer to big corporations. They will decide everything for you. Have a nice life!
You don't have to waste all those words. Here:
Goldman Sachs '12
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here is a puke of a righty CEO , as usual showing righty hate is what is loved by all rightys, starting the namecalling, threatening of physical violence, all the norm for a righty...
People are bashing various things, and one of them is that money is equated to free speech in the first place.
I've been around a good while (I'm 60) and have never in my life seen a time where so many soulless beings roamed our country.
Those who applaud this decision, as well as other favorable actions for the benefit of the monied elite, are utterly without conscience, without reflective capability, totally void of any instinct that guides them toward right and away from wrong. They remind me of The Terminator in that they are one-dimensional beings that that have but one mission in life and cannot be reasoned with or deterred from their pursuit of wealth. They understand or consider absolutely nothing else.
They must be marginalized and excluded from policy making processes. And that must be accomplished while, at the same time, keeping their very dangerous mirror images on the far left equally distant. That is our challenge.
The group hurting most are the 3rd party Independents. With this ruling they don't stand a chance. NOT A CHANCE. Why should corporations and foreigners pick 3rd party to win, when they already have contacts with Dems and Repubs? They don't, so they pour their millions on "D"s and "R"s. From now on corporate money will elect the leaders.
These guys just redefined the word "activist judge".
The right wingers should be dancing in the streets! They love this sort of thing. (Well, their owners tell them they love it, so they love it, and their owners just won big)
The question is why are the liberals who love free speech are not celebarating
The question is why are the liberals who love free speech are not celebarating
No one lost free speech. Absolutely no one.
You know this and I know this.
Stop playing games.
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