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Opinion: Stop the Campaign Finance Madness
By Elaine S. Povich - AOL News(April 2) -- Enough, already. It's time for public financing of campaigns. Now. Not next week, not next year, not when the Supreme Court is forced to take up yet another attempt to navigate between the First Amendment and public buying of politicians. The first insult to that navigation idea was the court's decision in January that corporations are people too. The high court said corporations have the same rights as people when it comes to political speech, so they can take out ads touting their political agendas. A Montgomery County, Md., company, Murray Hill Inc., made a mockery of that ...
SCOTUS Ruling on Corporate Political Spending Is a Business Decision
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyA little more than a century ago -- just about at the same time when Congress outlawed all campaign contributions by corporations -- humorist Finley Peter Dunne, channeling the diction of an Irish bartender, shrewdly wrote, "Th' Supreme Coort follows th' election returns." Normally, though, the Supreme Court has the self-restraint to wait more than two days. On Tuesday Massachusetts voters rebelled against special interests, Wall Street bailouts, and one-party rule by vaulting Republican Scott Brown into the Senate. Thursday morning the Supreme Court, by an ideologically predictable 5-to-4 ...
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