Bill Moyers Journal: Justice for Sale (DVD)
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Corporate and large private donations can have a big impact on judicial elections. This episode of “The Journal” explores how large campaign donations effect, or even prejudice, America’s court decisions. Revisiting the 1999 Frontline special “Justice for Sale”, the episode looks into how deeply the effects of these relationships effects the whole of the system. Host Bill Moyers is joined by Jeffrey Toobin, a legal analyst and journalist, to discuss the effect that the boost that the U.S. Supreme Courts Citizen United decision has had on the relationship between major campaign donors and judicial elections. One of the major questions that is asked by this documentary is “Are we witnessing a corporate takeover of democracy?” This, and many other questions, are answered in a video essay that speaks to the increasing cohabitation of state and corporate power and the results of those close associations. Broadcast date: February 19, 2010. (57 minutes)
Bill Moyers Journal: Justice for Sale
• DVD
• ISBN: 978-1-61616-870-4
• Run Time: 57 Minutes
• Copyright Date: 2010
• CC
Bill Moyers Journal: Justice for Sale
• DVD
• ISBN: 978-1-61616-870-4
• Run Time: 57 Minutes
• Copyright Date: 2010
• CC
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In this edition of The Journal, a detailed look at how campaign cash used for judicial elections can influence the courts of America. The program revisits the Frontline special entitled “Justice for Sale.” Following this segment, journalist Jeffrey Toobin joins Bill Moyers to discuss the impact that the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision will have on the unethical relationship between judicial elections and big money.
In the decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendments protects the rights of labor unions, associations and corporations to spend money for independent political purposes (not direct contributions to a candidate’s campaign).
The decision allows organizations to sway public opinion using methods like advertisements. The ruling overturned a century old precedent which allowed the federal government to regulate this type of political spending. The ruling greatly influenced how unions and corporates can spend money to support a candidate indirectly and influence public opinion during an election.
The program ends with an essay discussing how corporate and state power increasingly cohabitated and the likely potential result of that association will be the corporate control of American democracy. (57 minutes)
Bill Moyers Journal: Justice for SaleDVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-870-4 Run Time: 57 Minutes Copyright Date: 2010 CC
In the decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendments protects the rights of labor unions, associations and corporations to spend money for independent political purposes (not direct contributions to a candidate’s campaign).
The decision allows organizations to sway public opinion using methods like advertisements. The ruling overturned a century old precedent which allowed the federal government to regulate this type of political spending. The ruling greatly influenced how unions and corporates can spend money to support a candidate indirectly and influence public opinion during an election.
The program ends with an essay discussing how corporate and state power increasingly cohabitated and the likely potential result of that association will be the corporate control of American democracy. (57 minutes)
Bill Moyers Journal: Justice for Sale
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