🚨 BREAKING: Congress just reintroduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. 🚨
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the relationship between campaign finance and free speech. It was argued in 2009 and decided in 2010. The court held that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations.
Something tells me this is not really about Citizen United, but rather some other ominous change they want to add to constitutional amendment. I know that Liberals and Libertatians are extremely polarised against Citizens United, and using it as ane excuse is a great way to keep them in blind rage while push through something else.
I think its because Trump is out fundraising them bigtime, so now this law isnt beneficial to the swamp.
They seriously have no principles or care for the wider consequences of ANYTHING as long as it helps them RIGHT NOW.
You’re probably right and I’m sure in their minds they just think they change it again when it will benefit them more at another time to reverse it. They always have an ulterior motive to whatever they’re doing. Evil swine the lot of them!
Makes sense.
Here's the argument: https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/citizens-united-v-fec/
Free speech, including political speech, is a right clearly guaranteed by the first amendment. The document specifies no limitations on how much speech or what kind of speech that is. There is no "political speech", "no hate speech", etc. The federal government can't limit speech of people or of organizations of people simply because they have money and wish to spend it to speak on a political topic.
I don't think we want to be in a country where the government gives you an allocation of free speech to use and after that, you can't voice your opinion on a political topic through modern mass media anymore.