Government for sale

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In another blow to federal election laws, the Supreme Court on Wednesday eliminated limits on the total amount people can donate to various political campaigns in a single election season. However, the court left intact the current $5,200 limit on how much an individual can give to any single candidate.

"We conclude that the aggregate limits on contributions do not further the only governmental interest this court accepted as legitimate" said Chief Justice John Roberts, referring to a 1976 precedential ruling.

"They instead intrude without justification on a citizen's ability to express the most fundamental First Amendment activities."

Roberts was supported by his four more conservative colleagues.

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And the conservative justices of the SCOTUS **** us over yet again.

Far as I read about US' supreme court, they seen to be on a roll of shitty, idiotic decisions. Like in my own country, you could probably staff it with a team of the most idiotic lawyers in the land and still get better decisions than these incumbents.

Why dont you trust the almighty (job) creators tc? They always do whats best for their flock.

Pay more money to buy politicians, pay more money to make PACs and SuperPACs to saturate the media with ads saying that it's a GOOD thing.

Just what we needed more of in our elections, money!!! Can Sheldon Adelson buy a person to victory for the midterms this year?

Yes, this is indeed the end of our virtuous system of government. Now the evil rich will be able to buy favor with the politicians and in return receive taxpayer money, with no strings attached, to prop up their failed, or failing businesses.

Undoubtedly the restrictions on political donations that the supreme court just struck down have been the key to preventing crony capitalism and influence peddling in our great nation.

Doom is now certain.

@Serraph105: What?

@SpartanMSU:

The rich people, aka the mighty job creators, do what is best for their company which only work because of the people they graciously employ such as yourself. Letting the creators influence the government to such a large degree will mean more money in both of our pockets.

So much for "voting".

Really, this decision is virtually meaningless (at an applied level). PACs are already the preferred route for advertisements because contributions to them are unlimited and discrete. This really just allows for more more money to be donated to directly coordinated campaigns.

Pretty much nothing will change. Pac's and super pacs already provide most of the advertisement and important campaign help for candidates and donations to them are already unlimited. The general population won't see any real difference from this ruling.

True, but rulings like this further institutionalizes the pervasiveness of money in politics, which makes reform all the more harder.

I wonder if it will be utilized by the politicians themselves in some way, will there be an advantage to directly being handed the money or the speed at which it can now be received? We'll see what happens.