Who would pick the BEST Supreme Court Justices? Bernie Or Hill ?

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18. Corporate Personhood is larger than Citizen's United...

... and affects so many other decisions and areas than just this decision.

Bernie might not be citing citizen's united in this case, though I don't think he feels that precedent shouldn't be overturned, even if in some places where he's discussed it it hasn't been mentioned. I've not seen any quotes that have him specifically saying he wouldn't overturn corporate personhood decisions. If you are asserting that, then you need an article to back that up.

Especially when the talk show host, Thom Hartmann, that has had his town hall session every Friday for almost the last decade, is one of the foremost persons through written word and his show to seek to both make people aware of the faulty corporate personhood decision and to get it overturned. Bernie wouldn't be against what Thom Hartmann has championed on his show for years. Bernie knows that this is where corporations get a lot of their power and through decisions made by SCOTUS in this regard. I definitely feel he's far more inclined to make corporate personhood positioning a litmus test for who he nominates for the court than Hillary would.

And in situations where we can control and regulate corporate behavior in areas like money contributions, then if we can limit them from doing campaign contributions, I don't mind limiting other organizations such as unions, etc. from doing equivalent donations, as I think we still win if we can control the big corporate donors and PACs first and foremost. If we control them, then we don't need the other forms of donations. As long as we have a more level playing field with the average person as able to be heard as the wealthy.

One other area that needs to be corrected is the recent move by more right wing courts to cede their authority of citizen lawsuits to be moved to arbitration panels which are rigged more to work in corporations favor, especially when the SCOTUS recently has also ruled in such a way to limit average people's ability to participate in class action lawsuits which helps this form of justice to be rigged even more.

SCOTUS selection criteria should definitely protect us from overturning women's rights given to it by Roe, until a rational congress can actually put in sensible legislation, so that we can move back to a court that isn't making law by themselves like they are with corporate personhood, and others like Hobby Lobby, etc. too.

We need to make sure that not only will nominees to the court rule in favor of what we want for social justice issues, but especially on issues that give corporations and the wealthy too much "rights" that have been purchased by their buying off Republican presidents, etc. that have picked justices like Roberts, etc. who are bought and paid for to deliver corporate friendly decisions.