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The Supreme Court is in a tough spot in Caperton v. A.T. Massey. The legal claim here is that Americans have a due-process right to a judicial system untainted by the appearance or likelihood of bias. And appearances alone are sometimes enough. Indeed, the facts here are so completely grotesque, they cause the usually mild-mannered John Paul Stevens to proclaim: "We have never confronted a case as extreme as this before. This fits the standard that Potter ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Our news and our laws have been heavily influenced by special interests throughout the past, and this case is just the tip of the iceberg these days. The disastrous "War on Drugs" is just one example of our laws being designed and championed by well-heeled investors, but there are lots of others which you and I pay for. The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and lots of other official-sounding acronyms are tools for the super-rich to manipulate our world with our willing consent. "But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government." --Aldous Huxley, Brave New World: Revisited