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"Order in the Court!\nBaby rapers, oil spillers and gang-bangers be heartened! Gitmo be gone, but the new and utterly bought and sold Supreme Court handed down decisions that will impact us for decades &amp;#45; Much like the President Bush, who nominated its two new Justices, Chief Roberts and Count Weirdly Alito. Let&amp;#39;s take a look at these precedents, led by quotes from the new members.Court Weirdly\n&amp;quot;I&amp;#39;ve also represented corporations accused of antitrust violations, and I think that balanced perspective is something that&amp;#39;s valuable for a judge.&amp;quot; \nChief Justice John Roberts stated this on January 29, 2003, before the Judiciary Committee, explaining how whistleblowers can be fired for cause. Roberts also defended Microsoft against States suing for antitrust as a private lawyer. So, when Exxon Mobil came before the Roberts-led Supreme Court, his sympathies were already known. &amp;quot;So what can a corporation do to protect itself against punitive-damages awards such as this?&amp;quot; asked Roberts during the initial arguments in February, seeming to defend Exxon Mobil for employing a known alcoholic captain for the Exxon Valdez in 1989, who crashed and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound. How oh how can we help this poor corporation? Throw out the $2.5 billion in punitive damages (equaling one week of profits for Exxon Mobil) through some archaic maritime law that compensatory to punitive damages must be 1:1. Ahoy! This precedent will reverse medical malpractice, tobacco settlements and corporate malfeasance lawsuits for years; of course Exxon Mobil would have preferred a slap on wrist but, in a shocking moment of conscience, Justice Alito recused himself because he owns over $100,000 in Exxon Mobil stock."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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