By Glen Reaux

Founded by the Judiciary Act of 1789, The Supreme Court of the United States is the beating heart of our American judicial system.  It is the third branch of government and has the job of providing checks and balances against the legislative and executive branches of government.  In the hearts and minds of the founding fathers, it is the safety net designed to prevent tyranny and abuse of power in any form from ever enslaving the people.  Serving as the legal spirit and moral fiber of this nation, this beating heart guarantees that justice is fair, impartial, and equal for all American Citizens and residents.  In principle, this is its constitutional function.  But, is this really today’s court?

The true test of whether or not today’s court is functioning as the founding fathers envisioned is to ask two simple questions.  1.) Is the court protecting the people against tyranny and abuse of power in any form?  2.) Is the court keeping the executive and legislative branches of government in check?  The answer is an emphatic no!  Proof of this is evidenced by the fact that it is known worldwide that in America, one only gets the justice that one can afford.  But, not to beat a dead horse, let us look into the early court decision that set this dangerous precedent.  The precedent that led to the bias that now controls our entire judicial system, is rotting the core of our American democracy and subjecting the American people to an insidious form of tyranny, the tyranny of corporate money.  Corporate money is a tyranny far more devastating than the tyranny that the founding fathers feared most, the King of England.

The 14th Amendment of the Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.  Following the American Civil War, southern states were forced to ratify this amendment.  The principal language of this law provided for the legitimization of citizenship for former slaves.  The citizenship clause is the first sentence of the first section of the amendment.  It states that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”   Not long after that, in 1886 just 18 years later,  corporations began to use the power of their money to corrupt the justice system.  In the Supreme Court case Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. the court declared that corporations are people.  Corporate personhood gives corporations many of the rights of natural persons (human beings).  In reality, human beings can be tired for crimes, sentenced to jail, receive the death penalty, and even executed.  Artificial people such as corporations cannot suffer the penalty of death because they are not living, breathing human beings.  A corporation cannot be hung, shot, electrocuted, or die from lethal injection.  As a human being, you must ask “Am I receiving equal protection and justice under the law?”  Is the Supreme Court biased against me?

The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment which states “nor shall any State […] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”.  Since corporations cannot be punished in the same manner as a human being, then the Supreme Court rulings are in violation of the law.  In America today, corporations are protected better than human beings.  This is bias against you.  This is corruption paid for with corporate dollars.

The right to vote is a constitutional guarantee.  Free and open elections are also guaranteed.  However, the laws that determine how candidates are funded are biased against human citizens.  Campaign finance laws limit the amount of money that a human citizen can contribute to any given candidate or party.  Disclosing the identity of human beings that make these contributions is a requirement of these laws.  So according to these laws, full disclosure is required of humans and contribution amounts are limited to specific amounts.  In this system, the candidate who raises the most amount of money from human beings has the best chance to win in an open and fair election.  But this is not the way our American election process functions.

Enter Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, aka Citizens United.  On January 21, 2010, the US Supreme Court held (5-4) that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for communications by nonprofit corporations, for-profit corporations, labor unions, and other associations such as political action committees (PAC).   This means that corporations (non-human citizens) can pour unlimited amounts of money into political causes and candidates.   In July of 2018, the Treasury Department (a division of the Executive Branch)  ruled that 501-(c)4 tax-exempt political groups no longer have to report the identities of their donors.  This ruling means that foreign donors including governments can fund American political candidates and influence the creation and administration of government policies and laws.  Basically, corporations, foreign citizens, and governments can buy our government with large sums of untraceable money.

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson promoted a philosophy of human rights inherent to all people as a component of the Declaration of Independence, passionately stating “All men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”  The Supreme Court in its rulings and decisions has granted corporations via corporate personhood more rights and political power than human beings.  These rulings have totally ignored the intentions of Thomas Jefferson and the tenets of the Declaration of Independence.  Since Supreme Court Justices are human citizens of the United States, ruling against the spirit of the Constitution and their own human interest makes absolutely no sense at all.  These decisions declare that inhuman corporate rights outweigh unalienable human rights.  It is obvious, even to the blind, that big money has more influence over the courts and our government than human citizens.  Plain and simple, this is corporate and judicial corruption.

In reading the Constitution, it is obvious that guarding against this form of economic and corporate tyranny was the intent of our founding fathers.   So, now you must revisit the two questions that will help you determine if the Supreme Court is corrupt or not.  1.) Is the court protecting the people against tyranny and abuse of power in any form?  2.) Is the court providing the constitutionally required checks and balances of the executive and legislative branches of government?  The answer is as obvious as the three-ton elephant in the room.   In the United States Supreme Court bias is overt, corruption is rampant, and economic and corporate tyranny have become the law of the land.  These are the consequences suffered by the people of this corrupt Supreme Court and judicial system.

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