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Court Removed Limits
Friday, January 22, 2010 FOR MORE THAN a century, Congress has recognized the danger of letting corporations use their wealth to wield undue influence in political campaigns. The Supreme Court had upheld these efforts. But Thursday, making a mockery of some justices' pretensions to judicial restraint, the Supreme Court unnecessarily and wrongly ruled 5 to 4 that the constitutional guarantee of free speech means that corporations can spend unlimited sums to help elect favored candidates or defeat those they oppose. This, as the dissenting justices wrote, "threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation.
I put the wrong picture up but the country might look look that one day.
The pigs own your ass now, good luck America you're going to need it. Someone pass the ammo! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012104482.html
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