Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka denounced the United States Supreme Court on
Sunday as a right-wing panel that serves the interests of corporate America,
previewing a theme that is likely to rise in prominence with the approach of
the 2016 election.
On the opening day of the AFL-CIO’s
convention, Warren — the highest-profile national Democrat to address the
gathering here — warned attendees of a “corporate capture of the federal
courts.”
In a speech that voiced a range of widely
held frustrations on the left, Warren assailed the court as an instrument of
the wealthy that regularly sides with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She cited
an academic study that called the current Supreme Court’s five
conservative-leaning justices among the “top 10 most pro-corporate justices in
half a century.”...To Read More....
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