'Above the law, beyond the law, or the creators of the law, giant/powerful corporations are major domestic threat to our democracy,' says RalphNader
In over twenty hours of grueling confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican Senators found much time to disgrace themselves, using the Judge as a prop for their despicable political ambitions. Meanwhile the Democratic Senators found no time to tap into Judge Jackson’s knowledge and analysis of the grave issues regarding the nexus of the power of giant corporations and the Constitution.
Ignoring the immense power of global corporations over the rule of law, the immunities and privileges these companies use to escape the law and harm people with impunity, and the power of corporations under the 2011case to spend unlimited amounts of money to independently support or oppose candidates for public office were taboo subjects.
Since my testimony with Dr. Sidney Wolfe during Justice Stephen Breyer’s confirmation hearings in 1994, outside civic witnesses have largely been prohibited from testifying at these tightly choreographed spectacles. Congress has added this exclusion to their overallWe are left with submitting testimony for the record, which rarely sees the light of the Judiciary Committee’s day.
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