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Just gonna leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_(organization)
The current president, David Bossie… served in executive positions for President Donald Trump’s and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection campaigns.
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More swampy than a river imo
The swamps of stupidity run derp
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There’s a conservative group trying to use Dred Scott as a precedent to disqualify Kamala Harris. The civil war never ended, it just went cold.
Imagine this money put into public healthcare…
Every drop helps, but the US spends around $4.5 trillion annually on healthcare. If we changed to single-payer, cut out the middle-man multi-pipeline network of private insurers thereby also lowering administrative overhead that last I checked was around 30%… We would likely achieve what most other nations are achieving at half the per-capita cost we pay now.
Citizens United.
But just a few, incredibly rich ones. So it’s like the opposite of what the name seems to imply.
“We The People” never included the peasants.
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They always give these draconian laws positive sounding names. Also, all that disposable money could’ve be used for social programs through taxation
What law are you referring to?
They appear to be mistaking the shorthand for the Supreme Court ruling to be the name of a law. In fairness, bills do often have overly patriotic names that hide their paradoxical purposes.
The ministry of Truth would never lie! It’s right there in the name!
Well the same principle is at play here, since Citizens United is a deceitful name for an astroturfed, billionaire-funded organization that had absolutely no involvement from ordinary citizens.
Typically, the collection of judicial opinions are referred to as “case law” if one wanted to be generous.
After a certain point, they’re just going to cut out the middle-man and say Money = Votes and allow you to bid or hold shares in the office of the President.
Citizens United and SpeechNow fucked us. Until these are overturned, along with the Electoral College and FPTP abolished, dark days are ahead for our Democracy.
At which point we the people would be morally and legally obligated to make that office uninhabitable.
There is always an answer. Just not always a civilized one.
democracy :)
If we don’t turn over the institutions of government to the highest bidder, all the ads on TV say we’ll get something way worse
Like healthcare for everyone 👻
that is a lot of school lunches
So many out of work hookers and piles of cocaine disappearimg in the morning dew.
Republicans don’t want to get rid of it because it helps them against Democrats. Democrats don’t want to get rid of it because it helps them lock out progressives. We’re stuck with it.
How would the Democrats “get rid of” a supreme court decision?
Proponents of which party brought the case? Appointees of which party were in the deciding majority on the court?
How would the Democrats “get rid of” a supreme court decision?
Stacking the courts and bringing another case. Or an amendment.
So like I said, we’re stuck with it.
SCOTUS does not need a case to reverse itself or review a law. In fact there’re startlingly few rules around SCOTUS.
add more justices
Are there other western countries that have a similar rule regarding money in politics? I’m not familiar with rules regarding political donations in other countries
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Are the rules around who can donate or around how much they can donate? My understanding is that in the US, most people can donate directly to a candidate (within a limit) but you can donate unlimited amounts “indirectly” to the candidate
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”Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest…”
~hysterical laughter with a backing track of Ominous Latin Chanting~
They’re all begging for the guillotine. Why keep them waiting?
Yeah, I keep reading that as “Megaboners”
y’all come on now, just cause they donated a couple billion bucks does not mean their opinion matters more than an average citizen does it?
This is how we get rid of the Deep State! Thank you Trump’s Supreme Court (who has been doing the Same Things as Citizen United but for our OTHER Rights!)!
