The 10th Justice

Corporations are not people. Just as no one has ever heard a dollar bill speak and no one has ever heard a corporation speak. Nor can corporations vote since they are not citizens. Yet in this era many large corporations are more like foreign countries, being intertwined with businesses in other nations. Today we are investigating the influence of Russian on our elections. We have seen the Mueller Commission indict Russians for election tampering and everyone is wondering if Trump will be indicted for the conspiring with these anti-democratic forces. Who is investigating corporations? Take a minute and read about General Electric on Wikipedia. Count how many foreign banks and business are wholly or partly owned by GE. During the 2008 recession, our Federal Bank loaned billions, maybe trillions, of dollars to foreign central banks and in some cases directly to foreign financial institutions who where deeply intertwined with American business. They did this to keep the financial market...

My blog is named The 10th Justice, after my hero Judge Learned Hand, just to remind those who haven't read all my essays. Judge Learned Hand was called the 10th Supreme Court Justice even though he was never on the court. Many of his legal opinions are our laws in America still. He was never nominated to the court because he was neutral. His only ideology was fairness. He  always looked at both side of the issue as objectively as he could, and decided cases based on the best facts and not on unsupportable opinions. His opinions were driven by no other ideology. And so we look at Brett Kavanaugh who has apparently demonstrated clearly that he will bring his ideology into the courtroom and add it to the stream of evidence and argument, when making his decisions. This does not sound like fair judgement. This makes everyone less respectful of the law. Decisions are no longer being made by the blind justice holding the scales, balancing the evidence fairly, because the justice has put...