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Monday, December 29th, 2014

At America’s court of last resort, a handful of lawyers now dominates the docket

Author:     Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts and John Shiffman
Source:     Reuters
Publication Date:     Dec. 8, 2014, 10:30 a.m. GMT
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Stephan:   One of the trends that concerns me the most is the corruption of the American judiciary. As empires decay, whether Roman, Burmese, or American one of the processes the failing empire goes through is that their permanent civil service structure becomes increasingly a shop closed to all but a few with special access. This article is lengthy but it spells out as I have seen it no where else what is happening to the American Supreme Court. It is not a reassuring picture.
PILLARS OF JUSTICE: Although the U.S. Supreme Court is the most diverse it has ever been – three of the nine justices are women and two are minorities – the elite bar that comes before it is strikingly homogeneous: Of the 66 top lawyers, 63 are white. Only eight are women. Credit: REUTERS/Molly Riley

PILLARS OF JUSTICE: Although the U.S. Supreme Court is the most diverse it has ever been – three of the nine justices are women and two are minorities – the elite bar that comes before it is strikingly homogeneous: Of the 66 top lawyers, 63 are white. Only eight are women.
Credit: REUTERS/Molly Riley

Part 1: A cadre of well-connected attorneys has honed the art of getting the Supreme Court to take up cases – and business is capitalizing on their expertise

WASHINGTON – The marble façade of the U.S. Supreme Court building proclaims a high ideal: “Equal Justice Under Law.”

But inside, an elite cadre of lawyers has emerged […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Monday, December 29, 2014 at 3:04 pm

    At least Reuters has the facts to make a good analysis of the situation, as bleak as it may be. If the country could all see what’s going on, maybe some good could come from this – like disbarring some of the awful current justices and reappointing better justices that are not prejudiced toward monopolistic corporations and would take on the cases of “little people” which are the mass of rejected cases as I see it.