Below you can find a YouTube version of Episode #29, The Corporate Mole On The Supreme Court? Our guests this week are journalist Luke Goldstein, and attorney and current candidate for Colorado Attorney General David Seligman.
The 1971 Powell Memorandum is perhaps the most influential, important, and least read document in modern American history. It’s author, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., lived his life in the law, set out to shape the corporate legal environment in favor of large firms, and was wildly successful in that endeavor.
This week’s discussion gets into how Powell reshaped law to encourage corporate consolidation, and how his successors, both in and out of the Supreme Court, took this idea and ran. We discuss the history of corporate and labor laws, and how we had a better working mix of both in the recent past, which can lead to a way back to a better mix in the future, through enforcement of antitrust laws.
This is not as heavily edited as the show is, it’s closer to the raw video of our taping session. We also have a rough transcript for you.
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-David and Matt