It needs to be stressed, it is the Court, stacked with priests of - TopicsExpress



          

It needs to be stressed, it is the Court, stacked with priests of plutocratic and corporate power, that has amended the Constitution by equating money to speech and by granting constitutional rights to associations. The proposed amendment gaining momentum in Congress would return the power of how much money is donated and spent on elections to the people, not the Court. How money raised and spent should be a “manner of holding elections” covered by Art. 1, Section 4 of the Constitution. SJR-19 would re-establish that power in Congress as the Framers intended. What Goldberg seems to miss is the grassroots support for this amendment and other amendments before Congress. A majority of Republicans, independents and Democrats want the Constitution amended to overturn the “uninformed, arrogant [and] naive” (Senator McCain) Citizens United decision. This is only a partisan issue in Congress...
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:05:45 +0000

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