On 07/01/2014 02:32 PM, Joseph Spinden wrote:
There is no "even if". Given the current state of the SCOTUS, the ONLY way to reform campaign finance is to pass constitutional amendments overturning Citizens United, etc. SCOTUS cannot overrule the Constitution -- no matter how "active" the Roberts Court would like to be.
I'm not convinced yet. Citizens United and the Hobby Lobby ruling seem to me to be about corporations. It seems to me there is plenty of room for legislation clarifying, say, the differences between a publicly traded and a privately held corporation.
I hate the byzantine nature of our laws. But one thing it does is grant us some agility that we wouldn't have if we had a more simplified, self-consistent, system. He who has the best lawyers tends to win. And one thing mayday.us is doing, even if inadvertently, is hiring more lawyers. The lawyers are just tools. They'll do what we _pay_ them to do as long as we outpay our competition.
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