Posts tagged McCutcheon v. FEC
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New York Times columnist Mark Bittman writes about the McCutcheon v. FEC decision and he says now is not the time for despair–it’s time for action.
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NASCAR drivers wear the corporate logos of their sponsors on their suits. The justices who sided with plutocracy ought to wear sponsorship logos on their robes, too.
Huffington Post’s Paul Blumenthal reports today on the elite set of donors who’ll benefit from the recent Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC. You won’t be surprised who they are: Wall Street bankers and some billionaires.
Common Cause: The 5 Most Absurd Quotes in McCutcheon v FEC Decision
“Spending large sums of money in connection with elections, but not in connection with an effort to control the exercise of an officeholder’s duties, does not give rise to quid pro quo corruption,” and other ridiculous quotes from the Supreme Court’s recent decision in McCutcheon v. FEC
From CNN: “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized the Supreme Court’s view of campaign finance at a Tuesday event, telling an audience in Portland, Oregon, that the judicial body’s ruling will limit the number of people involved in the political process.”
New York Times on McCutcheon v. FEC: “Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., showing insincere naïveté, doesn’t consider that purchase of access to be corruption, which he apparently detects only in bribery. But the donors know that American politics is now for sale, and they are ready to buy.”
There aren’t a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way, where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling whoever they want, however they want, in some cases undisclosed. And what it means is ordinary Americans are shut out of the process.
Kentucky Congressman John Yarmuth has a great op-ed today in the Louisville Courier-Journal about the upcoming McCutcheon v. FEC challenge at the Supreme Court.