Roberts for the Rich

The Roberts Supreme Court, another painful legacy of the Cheney-Bush era, is turning out to be the most dangerous Supreme Court in history.

First, Roberts, Inc. gave citizens' rights to corporations, allowing them to spend their billions freely to populate government with their purchased patrons. Who suffers most? The common working folks.

Next scotus constricts the rights of the accused by - get this - making a person verbally express his right to remain silent. How's that for a Catch-22? You have the right to remain silent, but you have to break that silence to access your "right". Justice Sotomayor saw the lunacy in this twisted logic. What other rights that you thought you had will you now be required to publicly ask for each time you wish to exercise them? Does anybody else see the slippery slope?

And now the kangaroo kourt is stripping away public funding for political candidates who opt not to be bought by the rich special interests. Have you noticed how many gazillionaires are buying their own elections these days? Matching public funds are (were?) the only real available mechanism for the non-wealthy to compete. And whose interests do you think the gazillionaires are looking out for? Yours and mine? Yeah, sure.

Are you paying attention, Tea-Partyers, to your right-wing compatriots on the Court as they shred the rights and freedoms you profess to espouse? Cheney-Bush and the other conservatives - and I used to be a conservative until I realized the damage they were doing - decry an activist court at every opportunity. But the Roberts train wreck raises judicial activism to another level.

John Roberts was the least controversial Court nominee in recent memory. Supposedly he was so smart and so well qualified. But he is turning out to be the worst appointee. How can that be? Is he bought and paid for? It makes you wonder.

Prediction: Next up for the Roberts Court, reaffirmation of the Dred Scott Decision. Everyone's invited to the cross burning afterward! Bring a dish to pass!!