"Congresswoman Donna Edwards Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Undo SCOTUS Ruling"~ Petition

[Cha]

Sign the Petition

"NOW HEREBY BE IT RESOLVED THAT WE THE UNDERSIGNED VOTERS OF THE UNITED STATES CALL UPON THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO PASS AND SEND TO THE STATES FOR RATIFICATION A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO RESTORE THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND FAIR ELECTIONS TO THE PEOPLE. (Read the full resolution.)"

http://freespeechforpeople.org/petition

"What did the Supreme Court just do to our democracy?"

"On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are entitled to spend unlimited funds in our elections.

The First Amendment was never intended to protect corporations.

This cannot stand. Sign up to protest this decision and protect our democracy! Free speech is for people — not corporations."

<much more w/video with Professor of Law Jamie Raskin>
http://freespeechforpeople.org/

"American citizens have repeatedly amended the Constitution to defend democracy when the Supreme Court acts in collusion with democracy's enemies, whether they are slavemasters, states imposing poll taxes on voters, or the opponents of woman suffrage. Today, the Court has enthroned corporations, permitting them not only all kinds of special economic rights but now, amazingly, moving to grant them the same political rights as the people. This is a moment of high danger for democracy so we must act quickly to spell out in the Constitution what the people have always understood: that corporations do not enjoy the political and free speech rights that belong to the people of the United States."

- Professor Jamin Raskin, constitutional law expert at American University's Washington College of Law

[FrenchieCat]

1. This what should happen in a normal world.....

but this world is anything but normal! :(

[Cha]

2. We can try by rising up against this injustice..

I thought having a petition to sign was a way to be actually doing something along with Donna Edwards' Constitutional Amendment introduction to Undo SCOTUS Ruling was a big step!

I signed.:)

[goclark]

3. I signed too! Let's roll with it!

:bounce:

[JimWis]

4. Done