Tag: Lewis Powell
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U.S. Supreme Court: Republicans – 20, Democrats – 8
Republicans – 20 and Democrats – 8 That’s the number of Supreme Court judges appointed by each party since the end of World War 2. That’s a difference of +12. If we’re keeping score, the Republicans are annihilating the Democrats in the Judicial branch of our government. Have the Republicans simply been luckier? Maybe, but…
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A Brief History of Citizens United and Corporate Power
Let’s talk Citizens United and Corporate Power. Citizens United is a symptom of a bigger, longstanding threat: for decades the largest corporations have been building power over our political process. The 1960s and 1970s were some of the most trans-formative years in American history. The 1960s saw the rise of social movements across the nation…
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Noam Chomsky on How Businesses Sought to Destroy the Democratic Movements of the 1960s
Democracy Now! JUAN GONZÁLEZ: I wanted to take a—ask you to talk about a section of your book, Requiem for the American Dream, where you talk about this famous Powell Memorandum that Justice Powell sent to the Chamber of Commerce and to others, major business groups, in 1971, where he said that business is losing…
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The Powell Memo – Full Transcript
Introduction In 1971, Lewis Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powell’s nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.…