Edited sentence: He points specifically to their handling of the Sherman Act, which favored monopolies while opposing labor strikes, as well as their use of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect corporations moreso than African-Americans, as proof of this.Historian Howard Zinn has claimed that the justices can not be independent, as the members are chosen by the president and ratified by the Senate.Likewise, he says that they can not be neutral between the rich and the poor, as they are almost always from the upper class