{"id":9112,"date":"2012-10-12T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9112"},"modified":"2012-10-12T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:53:12","slug":"republicans-sue-to-buy-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/12\/republicans-sue-to-buy-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Sue to Buy Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Considering that SCOTUS ignored the Constitution and decided Citizens United<\/em> giving corporations free reign to spend $millions to fund disingenuous advertising for Republicans, do you think Republicans will be satisfied with their gift from the fascist five?  If your answer is yes, you\u2019re mistaken, because Republicans have filed suit for even more.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Citizens United v. FEC<\/em> gave corporations unlimited ability to spend money on elections, so long as these attempts to buy elections did not involve direct contributions to a candidate<\/strong>. Shortly thereafter, a lower court ushered in the era of super PACs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To date, however, the courts have left federal limits on contributions directly to candidates or political parties largely unmolested. Under federal law, individual donations to candidates are limited to $2,500 per candidate, per election, and total contributions to candidates, political party committees and similar organizations are limited to $117,000 every two years<\/a>. Thus, GOP billionaire Sheldon Adelson can currently give tens of millions of dollars<\/a> to groups trying to elect Republicans that are separate from the Republican Party, but there remains a cap on how much he can give the GOP directly.<\/p>\n

A lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee now wants to eliminate most of these modest restrictions on election buying, and eliminate the $117,000 cap on donations by people like Adelson<\/strong>. Moreover, because of a federal law that requires the Supreme Court to hear certain campaign finance cases, the Supreme Court is now almost certain to take the case<\/a> \u2014 potentially handing the Republican Party their biggest Supreme Court victory since Citizens United<\/em><\/a>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Once again, this underlines the importance of this election, because we are powerless to stop the extreme Republican ideologues on SCOTUS from trashing the Constitution to help the Republican Party create a permanent regime of totalitarian Republican one-party rule, in which elections no longer matter.  What we can do is prevent the Court from becoming more packed with Republican activists, and reverse the trend over time by keeping Republicans out of the White House.  Obama will appoint Justices like Sotomayor and Kagan.  If Romney occupies the White House, Robert Bork will be be doing the picking.  Imagine Bork picking the replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Considering that SCOTUS ignored the Constitution and decided Citizens United giving corporations free reign to spend $millions to fund disingenuous advertising for Republicans, do you think Republicans will be satisfied with their gift from the fascist five?  If your answer is yes, you\u2019re mistaken, because Republicans have filed suit for even more. Citizens United v. […]<\/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-9112","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\/9112","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=9112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}