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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3754111" data-attributes="member: 56035">The supposed clash between liberal and conservative judges is largely a fiction. The judiciary, despite the Federalist Society’s high-blown rhetoric about the sanctity of individual freedom, is a naked tool of corporate oppression. The most basic constitutional rights—privacy, fair trials and elections, habeas corpus, probable-cause requirements, due process and freedom from exploitation—have been erased for many, especially the 2.3 million people in our prisons, most having been put there without ever going to trial. Constitutionally protected statements, beliefs and associations are criminalized. Our judicial system, as Ralph Nader has pointed out, has legalized secret law, secret courts, secret evidence, secret budgets and secret prisons in the name of national security.<a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-corruption-of-the-law/" target="_blank">The Corruption of the Law</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3754111, member: 56035"] [B]The supposed clash between liberal and conservative judges is largely a fiction.[/B] The judiciary, despite the Federalist Society’s high-blown rhetoric about the sanctity of individual freedom, is a naked tool of corporate oppression. The most basic constitutional rights—privacy, fair trials and elections, habeas corpus, probable-cause requirements, due process and freedom from exploitation—have been erased for many, especially the 2.3 million people in our prisons, most having been put there without ever going to trial. Constitutionally protected statements, beliefs and associations are criminalized. Our judicial system, as Ralph Nader has pointed out, has legalized secret law, secret courts, secret evidence, secret budgets and secret prisons in the name of national security. [URL="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-corruption-of-the-law/"]The Corruption of the Law[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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