Elizabeth Warren Hits 'Big Corporate Interests'For Putting Efforts 'Toward Influencing The Courts'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) ripped "corporate interests" that areputting "enormousresources toward influencing the courts" on Thursday, claiming "power is not balanced" in Washington.
“These big corporate interests are savvy,”Warren said while speaking at the American Constitution Society's 2013 National Convention, according to the ACS law blog. “They fight every day on Capitol Hill and in the agencies, devoting enormousresourcesto the task of bending legislationto benefit themselves. But they also devote enormousresourcestoward influencing the courts. Why? Because they know that influencing those who interpret thelaw is another extremely effective way to achieve their goals."
Warren warned of the"staggering" consequencesa "heavy pro-corporatetilt" on theSupreme Court, and urged pressureon President Barack Obama and others to speed up the judicial nominations process.
“Above all, we must makejudicial nominations a priority. It’stimefor a new generation of judges, judges whose life experience extends beyond big firms, federal prosecution, and white-collar defense,”Warrensaid. “We need sustained pressureto get those judgesin front of the Senate. Pressure-- pressure on our president, pressure onsenators, pressure in thepress."
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