Jan 21, 2010

Justices Block Key Part of Campaign Law

Ouch.


"Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

The ruling was a vindication, the majority said, of the First Amendment’s most basic free speech principle — that the government has no business regulating political speech. The dissenters said allowing corporate money to flood the political marketplace will corrupt democracy."


Read the article here.

1 comment:

  1. Love the blog! Sad about the campaign decision, but money == power now I suppose.

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