What Hath “the Supremes” Wrought?
The January 21, 2010 ‘Citizens United’ ruling on corporate funding of political campaigns strikes raw nerve(s)–originally posted 2/1/10
Amazingly, what should have been a routine narrowly construed remedy to a violation of a nonprofit conservative group’s (Citizens United’s) freedom to show a documentary about Hillary Clinton seems to have opened a floodgate for corporate money and power into the campaign process. But on the bright side, The People are beginning to question the incestuous relationship between the corporate power and the state power… and the moral legitimacy of both. — bw Continue reading