Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 21, 2010 @08:34AM from the hearken-to-the-nelson-laugh dept.

lorenlal writes "The Supreme Court of the United States must have figured that restrictions on corporate support of candidates was a violation of free speech, or something like that." From the AP story linked above: "By a 5-4 vote, the court on Thursday overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said corporations can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to pay for campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states."

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I for one... by Delwin · 2010-01-21 08:36 · Score: 5, Funny

welcome our new Disney overlords.
Re:Constitution? by Captain+Splendid · 2010-01-21 08:43 · Score: 5, Funny

then clearly the Constitution is defective.

You're thinking about this the wrong way. The constitution is not defective. Finally, all this anti-corporate ideology is on the wane, and true social equality will soon be reached when we get a corporation as a supreme court justice.

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