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By LORRAINE WOELLERT 08/15/2018 05:09 AM EDT
Abortion rights and civil liberties have so far dominated the fight over Brett Kavanaughs nomination to the Supreme Court, but his confirmation would mean a victory for another constituency: business.
Industry groups, led by the Chamber of Commerce, have spent decades bringing lawsuits and filing briefs to the top court in hopes of reining in regulatory power and winning rulings favorable to business. And court-watchers believe Kavanaugh, who was recommended to President Donald Trump by the conservative Federalist Society and worked in the pro-business Bush administration, would help industry continue its hot streak at the court.
The Supreme Court last term was the most business-friendly in modern memory, according to the Constitutional Accountability Center, a progressive public-interest law firm. The group concluded in a new report that Kavanaugh would tilt the court even more in business favor, noting that the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts already has sided with the Chamber, which the center views as a proxy for all business interests, in more than 70 percent of relevant cases since 2006.
Thats in contrast to the Chambers 56 percent win record under Roberts predecessor, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and 43 percent under Chief Justice Warren Burger, according to the center.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/15/kavanaugh-business-supreme-court-confirm-777515
This isn't a "hot streak" it is a demise of what is suppose to be citizen government if this asshole gets on the bench with the other Federalist Society assholes......................they hate the Constitution
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough............................vote
Turbineguy
(37,345 posts)When you're a republican, you can never be too greedy.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)I am reading a book now called "Can Democracy Survive Globalization, by Robert Kutter" and he pretty much explains how after WWII how some countries made it a pact that the worker would be included in what happens to a country when it comes to wages, benefits and such, and then he explains what happens when finance gets played into the mix with corporations, unrelenting ambition to go after wages and benefits and ...........to blame, the workers, and this character trying to get on the bench will make life harder for everyone in this country, he sides with banks and corporations a lot....................
librechik
(30,674 posts)maybe forever!
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)blame...................forever................
Turbineguy
(37,345 posts)have been messy. But those in charge let things get that way and then ignored the warning signs.