{"id":11366,"date":"2013-10-13T00:04:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T07:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2013-10-13T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T07:04:58","slug":"son-of-citizens-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/son-of-citizens-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Citizens United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you think that Citizens Unites was the most that the fascist five Injustice of SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional venereal disease) could to to give more electoral power to the 0.1%, you thought wrong.&#160; There is now a case before the Court, <em>McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission<\/em>, to raise the amount a billionaire can contribute in the aggregate from $123,200 to $3.5 million per cycle.&#160; Herr Scalia said $3.5 million isn\u2019t a lot of money!!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SCROTUS\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"SCROTUS\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SCROTUS.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While much of the government continued in shutdown mode this week, the Supreme Court was back in business starting off its new term with a controversial campaign finance case. This week, the court heard arguments in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, a case that could have a huge impact on the way money influences our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>McCutcheon challenges aggregate caps on how much individual donors can give to candidates and political parties. The current overall cap stands at $123,200 per donor for a two-year election cycle, but McCutcheon could raise that amount to more than $3.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>This week on Moyers &amp; Company, Bill talks to Yale Law School election and constitutional law professor Heather Gerken who warns that <strong>McCutcheon has the potential to kill campaign finance reform, already reeling from the Citizens United decision<\/strong> that gave corporations, unions and the wealthy the opportunity to pour vast and often anonymous amounts of cash into political campaigns\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/episode\/full-show-citizens-united-the-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Moyers<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bill devoted the first half of his hour long show to this.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/76677379\" width=\"500\" target=\"_blank\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If we think that this is the best government money can buy (and is buying) now, this disaster will make it that much worse. I am not very hopeful, given the current makeup of the Supreme Court. SCROTUS dominates. Regardless of how much the Fascist Five butchers our Constitution, these facts remain facts.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Corporations are NOT people!<\/font><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Money is NOT speech!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think that Citizens Unites was the most that the fascist five Injustice of SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional venereal disease) could to to give more electoral power to the 0.1%, you thought wrong.&#160; There is now a case before the Court, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, to raise the amount a billionaire can contribute in <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/son-of-citizens-united\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}