Stop the Activist Supreme Court – Restore The Constitutional Powers of We the People

Corporations can’t got to prison for illegal actions. We the people can.

We the people are left with PACs and what we can contribute to them to influence our elected representatives. Corporations are now their own PACs with their own funding and will now solidify their ownership of our representatives who will in turn outlaw our PACs.

Imagine the giddiness at the next board of directors meeting for the banks that are too big to fail. Now they can get as big as they want, take bigger risks, and they will make sure we pay for their irrational and unbounded exuberance.

Our Constitution goes to great lengths to protect the power of we the people over our government. The Supreme Court has now nullified all of them.

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Corporations Are NOT The People

I call on Congress to confront and reverse, by means of whatever legislation is possible, the lawless Supreme Court decision granting full personhood rights to corporations to corrupt our elections.
In their haste to overturn all well-settled precedent, they deliberately left the United States of America exposed and vulnerable to the influence of any foreign interests with a corporate presence here. This decision by a rogue majority of the Supreme Court therefore represents nothing less than an act of TREASON against the people of the United States.

There are many actions Congress can take to ameliorate this judicial crime, up to and including a Constitutional amendment to affirmatively repudiate the outlaw interpretation of five right wing ideologues, recognizing in the first instance that any such interpretation was unfounded on its face. Representative Grayson has already propounded a number of creative ideas, to which we should add bringing back The Fairness Doctrine with real teeth, aggressive public financing of elections, and of course directly forbidding corporations with any foreign ownership interest from exercising this outrageous new privilege. Another idea would be for Congress to exercise its Constitutional power to increase the number of seats on the Supreme Court, to install corrective votes. Any action that can be taken to keep wealthy corporate interests from further drowning out the voice of the people MUST be taken.

We remind the Congress that under 1 U.S.C. §1 they have the right to determine what “persons”, to include corporations or not, are covered by particular acts of Congress. Any claim to the contrary now represents a Constitutional CRISIS of historic proportions whether we like it or not. And we expect our representatives in Congress to stand up and like it NOT, and to act accordingly.

Stop the prostitution of our democracy. Stop the authoritarians of our Supreme Court.