Wobblie wrote:
Voting along partisan lines the US Supreme Court today struck down a 100-year-old law banning direct corporate election spending, allowing corporations to spend as much as they want to elect or defeat candidates for Congress and the White House. The ruling has been condemned by members of both parties. Can we officially call it fascism now?

Citizens United v. FEC opinion.

This decision is repulsive. First off, so much for the Roberts court being about "limited" judgments that only settle the question that needs to be answered. Oh no, in this case they went out of their way to reshape settled law. And so much for stare decisis. Oh, and so much for respecting the will of the elected branch and not becoming an "activist court." The amount of hypocrisy here is just frightening. God forbid corporations, unions and interest groups can't buy influence on a daily basis. Free speech my ass.

And wasn't there a ruling about a year ago where Kennedy J. wrote the judgment saying that a judicial election in Virginia where a party to a lawsuit basically paid for a judge's election to the state supreme court was tainted by the influence of money? Where's that concern in this judgment today?

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