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In reply to the discussion: Democratic Representative Introduces Two Bills To OVERTURN Citizens United Ruling [View all]onenote
(42,295 posts)First,this was introduced in the House and its certainly not going anyway, even out of Committee, in the House. So consider it DOA.
Second, no one has offered a companion amendment in the Senate and I doubt anyone will. And if they do, it too will die before ever getting out of Committee.
And it should die. As several posts here have explained, it is a spectacularly ill-conceived amendment that would leave every corporate entity, from the New York Times to MoveOn to the NAACP to DU to the Democratic National Committee exposed to unreasonable search and seizure and to the denial of any first amendment rights. Imagine this: if this amendment was in place back in 1968, Richard Nixon wouldn't have had to worry about breaking into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate. He could simply have had the FBI make a warrantless, baseless search of the premises. He could have had them seize all of the party's records. Since the Democratic National Committee is a corporate entity, not a natural person, it would have no basis for recourse.
That's only one example of how spectacularly bad this amendment is as drafted.