Supreme Corp corruption

Sirota explores a new study on how all-expenses paid corporate conferences have strongly influenced the conservatives on the Corp to rule for business and against labor and the environment.

"The study specifically noted that judges who attended the conferences 'subsequently are more likely to vote against regulatory agencies, in particular on the labor and environmental issues.'"

This is particularly significant in a new case before them, West Virginia v. EPA, which wants to strip the EPA of the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The plaintiff only considers the business interest in its cost-benefit analysis and completely ignores the "cost to society" of the climate crisis. Environmental catastrophe is a much larger and more important societal issue than the reasonable limitations on extractive and destructive businesses. And some still wonder why I call it the Supreme Corp?

"Though the case revolves around separation-of-powers arguments, Republican plaintiffs argued that allowing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions would impose too big a cost on society." 

Hartmann also explores this with investigative journalist Amy Westervelt in the video below.