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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-25-10 05:44 AM
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A Threat To Democracy (Hartford Courant editorial)
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SUPREME COURT DECISION • Unlimited spending tilts playing field and will corrupt politics

... Chief Justice John Roberts, it turns out, is a dangerous hypocrite, a wolf in sheep's clothing. At his confirmation hearings, Mr. Roberts promised to be judicially "modest," respect precedent and simply "call balls and strikes."

There was nothing modest about this decision, which bulldozed precedent and was a seismic shift in the political playing field favoring concentrations of great wealth.

The conservative majority cast the case as a First Amendment issue. The five justices said they were merely extending the right of political speech to where it had unconstitutionally been denied. It's a bogus argument. Corporations aren't people entitled to the free-speech rights that humans enjoy. In most cases, officers, directors and shareholders of corporations can make individual donations — which are limited — to political causes, just like the rest of us. Their free speech rights had not been trampled on.

The court majority unjustly gave the rights of citizens to entities that exist only on paper, and thus gave deep corporate pockets the legal right to hijack elections ....

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-supreme-court-error.artjan25,0,576426.story
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