How the Corporate Right Hijacked America's Courts to Enrich the Top 1 Percent

NEWS & POLITICS AlterNet / By Joshua Holland How the Corporate Right Hijacked America's Courts to Enrich the Top 1 Percent America's political-economy is caught in a vicious cycle, with concentrated wealth at the top leading to outsized political power. May 10, 2012 "...A study by the Constitutional Accountability Center found that the Chamber of Commerce had won 65 percent of its cases heard by the court under Chief Justice John Roberts, compared to 56 percent under former Chief Justice William Rehnquist (1986-2005) and just 43 percent of the cases that came during the Burger court (1969-1986)..."