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I chuckled at the acronym K-RATS (Kennedy, Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia) made in Marvin Jacobson's letter on Feb. 19, until I reflected on the senate hearings for Supreme Court Justices Roberts and Alito.

I remember both of them assuring the senators, during their confirmation hearings, that they would not overturn "precedent." At the time, my concern was mainly with their activist opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade. Never did I think long-established precedent on equal pay (Equal Pay Act of 1964) would be one of their first targets, misinterpreting the 180-day statue of limitations, holding that the statute of limitations for presenting an equal-pay lawsuit begins at the date the pay was agreed upon. It took two years for Congress to correct the Court's misinterpretation, the 180-day limitation resets with each new discriminatory paycheck, resulting in the first bill signed by President Obama on January 29, 2009, the Lily Ledbetter Act.

Fast forward from that 2007 wrong Court decision, to January 2010. Roberts and Alito, the avowed will-not-change-precedent "nominees," joined the K-RATS in overturning the decades-old precedent of corporations ban on spending in candidate elections. So now Congress has to spend valuable time, better spent on jobs bills and the economy, to draft and pass a bill to correct the Court's ruling.

This conservative Supreme Court has proven itself to be an activist court, exactly what was feared by the Party-of-No during the Sotomayor hearings. I look forward to the retirement of 73-year old Kennedy and 70-year old Scalia during the current administration, so this corporate court can once again return to the people's court.

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