America's Bought and Paid For Judges

A great way to water down democracy is to control the judiciary.   This is what happens when you combine unrestricted corporate electoral spending with an elected bench.   Judges whose election and tenure are tied to corporate funding can be reasonably apprehended to have a corporate bias on the bench.   Those who lavish them with money expect results.

The lead editorial in today's New York Times laments the demise of impartial courts resulting from  "enormous amounts of influence-seeking campaign money unleashed by recent Supreme Court rulings."

Can American democracy survive bought and paid for governors, legislators and judges?   Hard to imagine how.