The current court is as cloaked in corruption as its predecessors. The practice of justices taking money from parties that they judge must end. Texans deserve a cleaner justice system. The best friends of the court were lawyers. Tort Dodgers led the way in individual giving to the court.
Bundled contributions proliferate.
Numerous employees of the same law firm or corporation contribute to the same justice on the same day. Enron delivered the justices biggest corporate bundles. Whenever parties before the court are also major contributors to the judges you wind up with cross-fertilizations that smell more like manure than justice. Payola Justice includes five Payola Case Studies of actual Supreme Court cases that illustrate the perils of permitting parties before the court to double as big contributors. The report concludes that Texans will continue to be served tainted justice until the state stops electing judges through partisan elections.