That is in no way different than the current situation. If all of the dozens of trusted certificate authorities the world over has decided that they shouldn't provide certs for company X, you should probably be looking to company X for the problem, rather than the authorities.
In any case, users have always had the option of modifying the trust infrastructure or even ignoring it entirely.
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But what if Verisign really doesn't like Bank of America, can they cast doubt on their websites now?
No, but if they could and did, their business would come to an abrupt end when browsers stopped trusting them anyway.
What if everyone did it to some company
That is in no way different than the current situation. If all of the dozens of trusted certificate authorities the world over has decided that they shouldn't provide certs for company X, you should probably be looking to company X for the problem, rather than the authorities.
In any case, users have always had the option of modifying the trust infrastructure or even ignoring it entirely.
Let me rephrase. What if every cert authority might do it to some company (different companies for different cert authorities)
How would you even know if they did?