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78: R.I. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the Corporate Capture of the Courts

The Al Franken Podcast

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The Last Thing You Want Is Equal Justice

The pattern itself of 85 to four partisan decisions, 80 to zero in favor of republican donor interests is something that we should have been giving a lot more scrutiny to. One of their main goals is to keep big donors, big corp rations, out of court rooms. By god, you paid to have primacy in the congress. You paid to have access to the oval office when the other side can't. You love having be unequal. And so this whole business of being in courts is really tiresome.

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