i find myself in good company who was lewis paul lewis powell was really the father of the new corporate rights movement he was a lawyer in richmond virginia in the one nine hundred sixty s. he joined the board of directors of the philip morris tobacco company the cigarette company he was on the board of about a dozen other big corporations corporate lawyer and in about nine hundred seventy after witnessing twenty million people twenty million americans come out into the streets to demand better controls on earth day april nineteenth seventy to demand better balance about air pollution rivers catching on fire toxic waste basically corporate corporations externalizing everything poisonous and toxic and keeping the profits american said enough and we got a wave of environmental reform the first e.p.a. clean water act clean air act endangered species act and so on an incredible wave of reform with richard nixon in the white house lewis powell a corporate lawyer in richmond virginia looked at this and was appalled democracy was working he called it the attack on the free enterprise system an

being set up so he could get power but i don't know about that so i have to say he had to know lewis powell was well known he was head of the american bar association very stablish manoir as i said on the boards of all the these companies well known in virginia and nationally as a as a distinguished lawyer frankly he was always a corporate lawyer was a very spoken southern gentleman he was everything you hear about him he's described as you know mild mannered and gracious and i'm sure he was he just had a very corporatist sort of state of mind but you know the same day nixon nominated lewis powell he had to open and he nominated william rehnquist a conservative and these two actually turned out to be very different justices the conservative who we think of as the conservative william rehnquist actually wrote dissent after dissent against lewis powell corporate rights decisions and lewis powell who we think of as this moderate mild mannered judge turned out to be the revolutionary who created a whole new theory of corporate speech which had never existed in america up to that time. and blog

lewis powell retires from the supreme court and the question ronald reagan had to face who'd asea point*? orrin hatch is in the senate. the supreme court salary went up. that was a violation of the eligibility clause. other people discover this could be used the saxby 62 put him in any way? they ask the office of legal counsel and they said no. this clause means any time the salary is wait -- raise to cannot be put in that office. no way. what happened? reagan appoint did bork 80 west is not appointed then tha withdrew then anthony kennedy wass appointed and of course, he makes the law for the whole country by himselfn including in 1992 when he was the vote that upheld roe vs. wade.sinc so you can see how theu s interpretation changes history in the wade i don't think anybody knowsi about except for the person who discovered it that i took it from and no you. a similar issue with hillary clinton who violates the ineligibility cause with the secretary of state. the next reason you may want to learn about "the odd clauses" because they are not political hot potatoes. if they were you woul

con found a little bit of what -- >> i wouldn't be so sweep being that because if you go back to lewis powellon behalf of corporate interests. >> it is so important. i would say accepting a decision go to war. that the senate's most important digs who goes to the supreme court. they affect the character of america and long generations more than either one. citizens united. >> what you should know for the news week ahead coming up next. you know when i grow up, i'm going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i want to fix up old houses. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done growing. i want to fall in love again. [ female announcer ] discover what's next in your life. get this free travel bag when you join at aarp.org/jointoday. yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. you walk into a conventional ma

there's no violation of the ideas they didn't get any increase in so there's no problem. 1987, okay, lewis powell retired from the supreme court and the question that ronald reagan had to face these who to appoint it should be a point warren hatch backs orrin hatch of course is in the senate, and abuse in the senate the supreme court salaries went up. so that was argument of violation of the ineligibility clause the i didn't like discover any of the state of the people have discovered this. they wanted can we use the saxby fix and put hatch in anyway? they the office of legal counsel in the reagan justice department and they said no. that if you read this clause, this clause means that anytime somebody, the salary is raise coming means he can be put in that office, no way. so what happened? reagan appointed board. bork was defeated. douglas ginsburg was almost appointed and then withdrew for various reason. and anthony kennedy was appointed. and anthony kennedy, of course, makes the law for him the whole country a. including a 1992, you see how the interpretation of this clause really in fact cha