The Supreme Court put the brakes on a massive job discrimination lawsuit against mega-retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc., saying the plaintiffs had not shown justification for sweeping class-action status that could have potentially involved hundreds of thousands of current and former female workers, according to CNN.

This comes as no real surprise considering the makeup of the court is dominated by Republican Bush appointees sympathetic to corporate interests and not sympathetic to workers. This case shows why voting matters, people. If you want corporations to get away with murder and every other crime in the book, vote Republican. If not, well, you know what to do…

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