Is SCOTUS Gearing Up To Allow Unlimited Corporate Campaign Donations?
| Mon Jun. 29, 2009 11:46 AM PDT
Over at Slate, Richard Hasen claims that the Supreme Court's call for reargument of Citizens United v. FEC is a prelude to the Roberts Court overturning Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, the decision that allowed limits on corporate spending in elections.
Some people believe that the influence of money in politics is, in Larry Lessig's words, "not the most important problem, [but] the first problem,"—the problem we have to deal with before we can properly fix any of our other problems, just as an alcoholic needs to fix her alcoholism before she can fix her other, bigger problems. It almost goes without saying that turning a firehose of corporate money towards politicians' campaign coffers would be akin to offering an alcoholic unlimited free drinks.
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Another Example of SCOTUS Overthrow of the Rule of Law
Submitted by Anon92107 (not verified) on Mon Jun. 29, 2009 1:25 PM PDT.
In February former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor published an opinion “How To Save Our Courts” in PARADE which indicted the neocon majority on the Supreme Court for overthrowing the Rule of Law.
This is yet another example of the legacy of our religious right neocon “Ayatollah” Cheney-“Ahmadinejad” Bush Autocracy, with SCOTUS the only neocon controlled branch of government left carrying on their overthrow the U.S. Constitution.
Why is the alcoholic a
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue Jun. 30, 2009 5:04 AM PDT.
Why is the alcoholic a female?
We need a constitutional amendment:
Submitted by chrismurphy (not verified) on Thu Sep. 3, 2009 6:59 PM PDT.
Only a citizen may contribute to the campaign of any candidate for public office, in an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars per citizen per candidate.
We could maybe index this to inflation, but perhaps we should specify the salary of Congress Critters in the constitution as well, NOT indexed to inflation to give them an additional incentive to maintain the value of the dollar rather than inflating it - the hidden tax on the poor and middle class.
i think some people can get
Submitted by high risk merchant account (not verified) on Mon Oct. 26, 2009 6:43 PM PDT.
i think some people can get tied up on this sort of thing
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