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Barack Obama: 'The Citizens United Decision Was Wrong'
The Huffington Post | By Ashley Alman
Posted: 01/21/2015 2:22 pm EST Updated: 4 hours ago
President Barack Obama issued a strong statement Wednesday in opposition to the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizen's United decision, a ruling he believes "has caused real harm to our democracy."
Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court's 5-4 Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations and unions to give and spend unlimited sums of money on independent political activity. Demonstrators interrupted Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court Wednesday morning, shouting things like "money is not speech," and "one person, one vote," according to the Washington Post.
The president released a statement condemning the court's decision later that afternoon:
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YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Television and radio political advertisements, both positive and negative, restricted to the final seven days of an election cycle.
Only those running for office may broadcast political advertisements.
babylonsister
(171,042 posts)cable and radio stations would go out of biz.
And influence couldn't be bought; it'd never work, but I like it!
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Legislate a law which says cable companies have to offer a U-pickem 12 channels for $12.00 a month.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Print is good to go.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)but someone taking out a 50 cent banner ad on a website gets arrested?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Who exactly gets all that flood of money, I wonder?
The media and the politicians have been bought and sold and all you have to do to know that is follow the money to the end of the road - corruption is not just a third world problem.
Hekate
(90,616 posts)Vattel
(9,289 posts)he should address the legal arguments in the majority opinion or offer his own legal arguments on the case. Just whining about the decision being harmful is lame because judges are supposed to rule in accordance with the law even if doing so is harmful.
babylonsister
(171,042 posts)glasshouses
(484 posts)a piece speaking tours in 2 years.
He won't do shit about it
Just like his trade deals for corporations and the 1%
He's going to be a very, very rich man
They will owe him and he knows it