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for the USA, just the most important SC decision in the last 30 years, or more.
a decision that completely changes american politics, and completely screws the people.

chock full of awesome..
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Superawesome. Only thing is there's these links to sign a petition to write an amendment, but nowhere can I find the proposed text of the amendment. Anyone?

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Superawesome. Only thing is there's these links to sign a petition to write an amendment, but nowhere can I find the proposed text of the amendment. Anyone?


They don't have final, fixed language. Each of the sites/petitions provide examples that are a little different.

At the moment, they're focusing on building a movement to amend the constitution to overturn the Citizen's United ruling, and more generally give Congress the power to restrict corporate influence over elections.

Based on what I've seen, they're also aware that this means the amendment would also have to strike down the idea of "corporate personhood", which is technically an even bigger deal.

I'm curious to see the language as well, though. It's not going to be particularly easy to write.

Here's what happened...

Some asshole, lazy, pathetic guy named Clarence Thomas ended up on the Supreme Court of the United Stated. He sleeps, sits back, has never once asks a single question or speaks in five years. He along with Bush appointee rule on some insane Citizens United case, and overturn 100 years of campaign finance law. This same Thomas clown also once wrote that.. “the Constitution does not afford students a right to free speech in public schools.” This same asshole uses the pickup line, "Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?"

Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission
Cornell Law

The case was actually about a special interest group, funded by for-profit movie maker guy who aired Hillary hit movie 60 days before the election.

Instead of ruling on "Whether a broadcast feature-length documentary movie that is sold on DVD, shown in theaters, and accompanied by a compendium book is to be treated as the broadcast 'ads'" SCOTUS didn't rule on the actual case, but instead made a far reaching leap to rule somehow that corporations have First Amendment rights (a legal arrangement to protect shareholders from liability)... Also, not only do they have First Amendment rights, but they don't have to obey and campaign finance laws or contribution limits.

So an individual can only contribute so much, but if you put your money into any corporation, you can just donate as much as you want to run ads on TV as a special interest.

Two justices should have recused themselves. In fact, if Obama didn't fail to investigate any crimes committed recently, they would have followed up...

"A year after the decision, Common Cause asked the Department of Justice to investigate conflicts of interest on the part of two of the Justices in the majority. The organization noted that Thomas's wife was the founder and president of Liberty Central, a conservative political advocacy group that would be empowered to accept corporate contributions to run campaign advertisements. In addition, Scalia and Thomas had participated in political strategy sessions organized by David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch, who stood to benefit from the decision"

The odd fit of her shirt kept bothering me.

But, yeah, I'm on board with fixing this. Corps ain't citizens.

I wish you guys luck, these kinds of things trickle down to much of the Western World, you guys have a lot of responsibility to get things right.

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