Supreme Court Removes Corporate Restrictions on Campaign Spending

WTF?!?!?! Things are so far out of whack in this country. The Supreme Court, stacked with ultra-conservative justices from the Bush era, has just ruled to remove restrictions that limited corporate financing of political candidates based on a corporation’s right to free speech.

WHAT RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH??!! CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE!!!! It’s truly insane that the court just ruled to entrench the treatment of corporations as individuals in a court of law. Do they get to vote next? This is such bad news to anyone, of any party or political persuasion, who wants to see a return to democracy by the people and for the people. Corporations have deep, deep pockets and live eternally. If you thought lobbyists, were bad, they’re NOTHING compared to what the Supreme Court just unleashed.

Justice Roberts just won my award for the most despised man I know. He promised to rule as a judicial moderate. This is a screaming piece of judicial activism. This ruling blew away decades of past precedents limiting campaign financing by corporations, even repealing portions of McCain-Feingold and affecting state laws limiting corporate financing as well.

Here’s a reaction to the ruling from Senator Patrick Leahy, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

“Without any basis in the plain text or history of the Constitution, five Justices overturned precedent to grant corporations the same power as any individual citizen to influence elections. For these five Justices to reach their broad ruling, they overturned precedent, as well as the statute. As the dissenting Justices noted, ‘the final principle of judicial process that the majority violates is the most transparent: stare decisis…. But if this principle is to do any meaningful work in supporting the rule of law, it must at least demand a significant justification, beyond the preferences of five justices, for overturning settled doctrine.’

There is clear reason for ordinary citizens to be concerned that this divisive ruling will, in reality, allow powerful corporations to drown out the voices of everyday Americans in future campaigns. This ruling is no doubt yet another victory for Wall Street, at the expense of Main Street America. Our founding document begins, ‘We the People,’ and throughout its articles and amendments, the Constitution enshrines the power of our government in the people, not in corporations and powerful special interests.”

This is not good. And because it’s a Supreme Court decision, we have no recourse. Glenn Beck, now’s the time to cry.

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January 21, 2010 | Filed Under Serious 

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