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How a Corporatist Supreme Court Cabal Joined Forces With Right Wing and Kochs to Quietly Sell Out Our Democracy

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. August 5, 2011.

Corrupt, right-wing Supreme Court justices are abusing their power, fraternizing with the Koch brothers and fixing elections (among other horrors).

Conservative Majority in Supreme Court Threatens Our Politics and Most Basic Freedoms

ThinkProgressOctober 6, 2009.

The conservative majority has immediately begun stripping women's reproductive freedom, entrenching public school segregation, and undermining equal work pay.

Outrageous: Torture Lawyer John Yoo Gets a Column at the Philadelphia Inquirer

Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. May 12, 2009.

Yoo joins an 'increasingly rightward-tilting lineup' that includes former Senator Rick Santorum and torture fan Michael Smerconish.

Biden Takes Swipe at Chief Justice Roberts for Flubbing Oath

Satyam Khanna, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Video. January 21, 2009.

From Obama's first official media appearance.

'I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear…'

Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Video. January 20, 2009.

Our 44th President takes the oath of office.