2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why I DON'T support Bernie for President [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)That have been having their crimes ignored over the last decade, and who are a source of a lot of the corruption that has given us the corrupt congress we have now.. If we have a justice department that does its job, it will help start us on the way of getting criminals out of the ability to buy our government to corrupt it more.
Also, his commitment to only nominate SCOTUS nominees that will overturn citizen's united, in effect will shut down any more corporate serving decisions if the justice he's replacing is one of "the five" in his term. Republicans can set precedents by filibustering judges for political reasons which hasn't been done before, but even if they do, that 5 justice majority would be taken away and shut down any more corporate serving decisions even without a full complement of judges.
There's a lot of other things he can do as the chief executive that don't necessarily require a congress to agree with him. He can veto any trade agreements that he feels are just serving corporations too, which it appears almost any other Republican or Democratic Party candidate (perhaps not O'Malley) would not do.