While All Eyes Are On The Shutdown The Supreme Court...

[bobabode]

... looks at campaign financing with an eye towards removing individual limits on spending.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv...7d8_video.html

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files...on-commission/

[bobabode]

"In plain English"
http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/10/co...plain-english/

[CarlV]

The worst of it is that it would complete the Citizens United deal and kill any chance for a political party of the regular citizens of this country in the future.


Carl

[mpholland]

Originally Posted by CarlV

The worst of it is that it would complete the Citizens United deal and kill any chance for a political party of the regular citizens of this country in the future.


Carl

There was a chance for that?

[bobabode]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...46b_story.html

[merrylander]

Scalia should retire and take Thomas and Alito with him.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by bobabode

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...46b_story.html

From the above:

But the chutzpah award goes to Scalia and Justice Anthony Kennedy, who argued that the contribution limit being challenged doesn’t really prevent corruption because it encourages wealthy donors to instead funnel limitless sums into super PACs and other groups making “independent expenditures.” It was Kennedy who wrote in Citizens United that independent expenditures could never be corrupting, and Scalia agreed. Now they want us to believe that the corrupting influence of super PACs helps make the case for striking down still more limits.

The whole articles leaves one with the impression that the Supremes are ready to enable the next step in the triumph of plutotocracy.

[merrylander]

We know that Scalia and Thomas are in the Koch Bros pocket. Kennedy Alito and Roberts are probably beholden to some other large $$$ organization. When you are corrupt then it becomes impossible to see corruption.

[mpholland]

Funny, the SCOTUS is actually probably the most evenly divided branch of Government we have at the moment. Even after upholding the ACA you still feel it is too conservative. Unless Republican's take the white house and the Senate in the next decade, I would imagine Kennedy and Scalia will be the next to go, and will likely be replaced with more liberal justices. Just be patient, you will probably get what you want.

[CarlV]

Rob is correct, and the Koch Bros. own Scalia and Thomas for certain. Google their names together and read all the angles. Here:
koch bros, scalia, thomas


Carl