Thu 21 Jan, 2010
Corporate cum guzzlers.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on business efforts to influence federal campaigns.
By a 5-4 vote, the court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said companies can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to produce and run their own campaign ads.
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“The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion, joined by his four more conservative colleagues.
Strongly disagreeing, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his dissent, “The court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation.”
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor joined Stevens’ dissent, parts of which he read aloud in the courtroom.
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The case began when a conservative group, Citizens United, made a 90-minute movie that was very critical of Hillary Rodham Clinton as she sought the Democratic presidential nomination. Citizens United wanted to air ads for the anti-Clinton movie and distribute it through video-on-demand services on local cable systems during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign.
So a conservative court ruled in favor of a conservative group that wanted to use corporate money to make a movie about a person conservatives hate more than gay Muslim terrorists, and in doing so have granted corporations the ability to use their deep pockets to help elect/reelect candidates who will use his/her power(s) to pass laws that benefit the corporations that helped him/her get into office?
George Orwell couldn’t have made this shit up while eating a marijuana and acid sour cream pound cake.
Tags: Corporate Rape, Is there anything old rich white guys haven't fucked up, Supreme Court
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