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Program: Politics v. Supreme Court
Sharona Coutts: Background Briefing this week is set in the bitter winter of North America and the high voltage atmosphere following the return to power of the Bush Administration. We’ll be looking at some of the most sensitive social issues in the United States.
Hello, I’m Sharona Coutts. See if you can guess what is at the very heart of this highly charged political climate. Here’s a clue.
Justice Breyer: We have nine members, there are seven men, two women. We’re appointed by the President of the United States for life. Thomas Jefferson complained that they never retire and they seldom die. Seven of us were appointed by a President who was a Republican, two by a Democrat, but we all have legal backgrounds. Eight of us were judges previously in courts of appeals, or other courts. Before that, many of us were law professors or practitioners.
Sharona Coutts: That’s Justice Breyer, one of the nine justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court is the most powerful court in the world. For instance, in the year 2000, in Bush v. Gore, it pretty much decided who would be President.
For the last few years, the court has been severely split: on most important issues they vote 5 to 4 towards a conservative view
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Assume that a corporate board objects to a public policy — the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) for example — and wants to use corporate treasury funds to oppose it. The company could hire lobbyists to lobby members of Congress to vote it down (as the health insurance industry did when it funneled over $100 million to the Chamber of Commerce to oppose the ACA). The corporation also could tap its general treasury in the next election cycle to support or defeat candidates based on their position on the ACA. The Supreme Court paved the way for this kind of corporate influence when it decided in Citoyens Unis that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend money on political campaigns, so long as it’s “independent” from candidates (and even if it’s secret).
An alliance of the religious right and corporate America suggested a third option Tuesday in the Supreme Court. They argued that a corporation could declare that a law or regulation violates its First Amendment right to religious “freedom,” entitling it to a constitutionally-protected exemption from the law on that ground alone. Alternatively, a corporation could argue that it’s a “person” under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and thus exe