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Yet again proving Citizens United was likely the worst piece of legislation written since the PATRIOT act and 1994 crime bill.
by zer8k 3y ago
Yet again proving Citizens United was likely the worst piece of legislation written since the PATRIOT act and 1994 crime bill.
- wingspar 3y agoHow does the Citizens United Supreme Court decision relate to lobbying? As I recall, it related to non-candidate related/controlled campaign ads/expenditures. Lobbying for/against laws long preceded Citizens United.
- zer8k 3y agoIt enabled corporations and other entities to freely dump almost unlimited money into politics. The capital a mega-corporation like Google, or ByteDance, trounces what citizens can do by an order of magnitude. These entities were always allowed to donate, but in a very limited way. That limitation was ruled unconstitutional. The decision created a political class openly controlled by corporations. The lobbying you and I could do (or even 1,000,000 of us) will never amount to what ByteDance could do consistently over time.
- boeingUH60 3y agoYeah, but lobbying was always allowed before Citizens United.
- bostik 3y agoBecause it effectively uncapped the amount of money corporations can pour into lobbying. Looking from the outside, I'd say that CU codified a quintessentially American approach to governance: one dollar, one vote.
- nickff 3y ago>" Yet again proving Citizens United was likely the worst piece of legislation written since the PATRIOT act and 1994 crime bill. " What do you mean? Where is this coming from? CU wasn't mentioned in the article. Also, CU wasn't "legislation", it's a supreme court ruling (which is 'law').
- CalRobert 3y agoperhaps a reference to the money spent on lobbying being uncontrolled.