It seems that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that those big corporations who pay to play may find it harder to sway the judge in the future. Some of us have been in that situation — David fighting Goliath, except David never seems to win in the court room.
Today the Supreme Court made it a little easier to force judges who have accepted substantial contributions from big donors to be forced off the case.
This all stems from a story out of West Virginia, where an energy executive lost a case in that state’s Supreme Court — so he spent $3 million to get a new justice elected and get that case overturned.
It was ruled
… that a West Virginia Supreme Court Justice should have removed himself from a $50 million appeal in which he ruled in favor of a coal mining company whose CEO had been a major campaign donor.
Well, the call was close, but the case is being remanded to the same panel, minus the Justice Benjamin. Of course, there will probably be little chance of a different decision. After all, the rest of the gang is not likely change their minds. How would that look?
But, at the very least, we know now that the SCOTUS thinks justice should not be for sale. However, we must be aware that it was a very close call. Four of the Supreme Court justices believe that there is “just us” for all.
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