Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Supreme Court Perverts the First Amendment

The campaign-finance decision puts democracy up for the highest bid.
"It’s a dangerous thing to be naive about money and politics, and this opinion, naive to its bones, is a very dangerous opinion. It sets up a structure that almost ensures the end of meaningful representation at a federal level, around any issue in which major corporate interests have a stake."
[from the Slate, Big Money Column]




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