U.S. Supreme Court May Unleash Flood of Corporate Money Into Elections

[rumpel]

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Public Citizen

Once upon a time, corporate titans bankrolled our elections with no limits. There were no social safety nets, no real labor laws, and no voting rights for most Americans. There were the haves and have nots.

This fall, a century of modest limits on corporate influence in politics could be completely rolled back, crushing progress on health care, the environment, energy, economic recovery … on everything!

The Supreme Court on September 9 hears a case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that reopens the question of unlimited corporate money in our elections. In a stunning move, the Court will reach back and reconsider two other pivotal campaign finance cases settled long ago. The potential result? A century-old pillar of campaign finance doctrine could be swept away.

Sound like a good idea? Sounds so very last, last century — except this time it wouldn’t be the robber barons — it would be the giant, multinational corporations buying our politicians outright.

Don’t let our elections and progress get rolled by corporate power!

More including case info at:
http://action.citizen.org/t/5489/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=2067

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. Thanks. I've put it on blog

And also will include it with tomorrow's news.

http://votingnews.blogspot.com/2009/08/us-supreme-court-may-unleash-flood-of.html

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

2. I hope you added this to your journal so it may get front paged

this is a huge thing. Unbelievable that it might happen. It would be
close to plunging us into the dark ages, worse than what we've been experiencing
since 2000.

You can click on button at bottom of your post to add to your journal,
and then it might end up front paged.

[rumpel]

4. I have not but I can try..

I don't know the mechanism of how it gets front-paged..

[Prophet 451]

3. And it'll probably happen

The current SCOTUS is dominated by conservatives, at least two of whom were deliberately chosen for their canine fidelity to extreme-right views and the SCOTUS is free to ignore stare decisis. To the extreme right, rolling back those limits is not just desireable; it is the right, just and true state of the universe for the rich to have near-total power over the poor. Anything which limits that, in any way, is a perversion and must be done away with. Their ideal universe is a cross between Bill Gibson and Ayn Rand.