Dave Sirota: The Hostile Takeover of America's Courts

Why we should worry about the hostile takeover of America's courts

It's easy to forget what Supreme Court nomination fights really mean once they are over. They come along every few years, there's a whole media circus around them that focuses only on hot-button social issues, and then, typically after Democrats roll over and die, there's little - if any - recollection of what it all meant, except in the few cases where the hot-button social issues actually come before the court, and they don't usually come up for years, so by that point, everyone has long forgotten which President or political party was responsible for the nominations that swung the court.

"The Roberts Court has Been Good for Business"

Yesterday, I wrote a lengthy post about the hostile takeover of America's court system by Big Money interests. Today, Dow Jones has published a piece to the same effect - and it tells a similarly disturbing story.

Here's some excerpts:

"So far, the Roberts Court has been good for business. The U.S. Supreme Court's 2005-2006 term docket is loaded with cases impacting the business sector and the decisions handed down since Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. joined the Supreme Court last October have generally been favorable to business interests. 'This is the richest business term in recent memory,' said Mark Levy, a Supreme Court litigator with Kilpatrick Stockton LLP. 'Of the cases that have been decided so far, business interests have done very well.'