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Mob Justice

Brooke Harrington The Atlantic
What do plutocrats and Supreme Court members get from being friends?

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica
For over 20 years, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has been treated to luxury vacations by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow.

The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits Just Got a Lot Better

Jamelle Bouie New York Times
What if lifetime tenure, rather than raising the barriers to corruption, makes it easier to influence the court by giving interested parties the time and space to operate in an era when wealth has an almost unbreakable grip on our politics?

This Is the Election You Get for 9 Billion Bucks

Thom Hartmann The Hartmann Report
Simply put, the elections are “tightening” because rightwing billionaires and giant corporations are pouring billions of dollars into advertising. And advertising works.

AIPAC Has Taken Over the Democratic Primary Process

Alexander Sammon The American Prospect
What will it take for Democratic leadership to cry foul? It’s ultimately toxic for the party leadership to tacitly welcome a group currently endorsing a Republican who compared Democrats to Nazis.
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