Supreme Inequality

I read Adam Cohen's book Supreme Inequality; The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle For A More Unjust America. This was a technical and difficult book to read. The author didn't talk very much about the personalities of the supreme court justices. According to the author, since President Nixon nominated some conservative justices in the 1970's the Supreme Court has consistently favored the wealthy, the powerful, and large corporations. The decisions have impacted schools, jobs, criminal justice, and consumers in a negative way. According to Adam Cohen, the Supreme Court decisions have led to the very wide income gap between the very rich and the rest of us. The Supreme Court decision on campaign finance gives the wealthy even more power than before. In the book he described Lilly Ledbetter who worked for Goodyear. She found out that she was paid less than her male co-workers. Salary is not discussed at Goodyear and at most companies but when Lilly found the discrepancy she sued. The Supreme Court ruled against her saying she should have sued within 180 days of being paid less and that the statute of limitations prevented her from suing now. Lilly had worked at the Atlanta Goodyear plant for over a decade never knowing she was paid unfairly. In response to this Supreme Court's decision in favor of a large corporation, Congress wrote the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and it was signed into law in 2009.  I always thought the Supreme Court was a place where matters were treated fairly and all decisions made legal sense. Reading this book made me realize I was wrong.