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Selatius
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Thu Jan-21-10 10:35 AM
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Look at how damaging corporate money was to the health care reform bill in the Senate. The SCOTUS decision simply formalizes the reality on paper. The reality in America has been this way for quite some time.
The US was permanently crippled when that douchebag clerk wrote in the side margins of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886) that corporations are entitled to constitutional protections afforded under the 14th Amendment.
This wasn't helped by the SCOTUS decision in Buckley v. Valeo that formally enshrined 1st Amendment protection for corporations (1976).
The striking down of McCain-Feingold simply reaffirms the SCOTUS finding in the infamous 1976 decision.
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