Our elected representatives only represent those who pay for their campaigns. The Supreme Court will not provide any check to that imbalance, which is why we need publicly financed campaigns now. This is from Democracy Now!!: In Rare Interruption, Supreme Court Urged to Uphold Campaign Spending Caps The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on a key campaign finance case that has been dubbed the next Citizens United. The case, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, is named for Shaun McCutcheon, a Republican donor who wants the court to throw out the aggregate limits on what an individual can donate in a single election cycle. Critics say striking down the caps would do for individuals what the Citizens United case did for corporations, opening the floodgates for unlimited spending. In a rare action last week, a campaign finance activist interrupted proceedings inside the Supreme Court chamber. Kai Newkirk of 99Rise spoke out in what is reportedly the only known video of the Supreme Court in session. Kai Newkirk: I rise on behalf of the vast majority of the American people who believe that money is not speech, corporations are not people, and our democracy should not be for sale to the highest bidder. Overturn Citizens United. Keep the cap in McCutcheon. The people demand democracy. A number of groups, including Public Citizen, are planning to hold more than 100 actions across the country on the day the McCutchen ruling is issued.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:48:26 +0000
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