http://www.salon.com/2014/04/02/a_supreme_court_out_of_control_how_mccutcheon_will_spur_corruption_and_inequality/
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia (Credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Jeff Malet Photography, maletphoto.com/photo collage by Salon)
That clanging sound you hear is the Supreme Court, hammering the final nails into democracy’s casket. With Wednesday’s decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, the court has crossed the line protecting the last vestige of campaign finance reform, and making it official: Rule by the rich is now unfettered. Plutocracy’s moment has arrived.
How did we get here? The granddaddy of modern Supreme Court campaign finance cases was Buckley v. Valeo, which decided the fate of the post-Watergate reform amendments to the Federal Elections Campaign Act (FECA).
It was Buckley that first struck down limits on campaign expenditures made independently of a candidate’s campaign. That kind of spending, the court said, is speaking, and is protected by the First Amendment. That misguided opinion has sent us down the long, dispiriting path of unlimited contributions: of independent PACs, followed by soft money, and, most recently, Dark Money and super PACs.
IMO it's not misguided, it's the one plan right wing America has successfully put on our necks oh that and striking down part of the voting rights act, there should never have been nor ever again be a lifetime appointment to anything that has to do with law and governing of "we the people", Americans bought in for years to republican propaganda and voted them in and each time they could they stacked the scotus with an eye to things like what they are doing to destroy democracy as we know it today.
the nation is last if at all considered in decisions and what works out best for big business and those who get those laws in favor of that same big business, is what determines our lives. we have no say in what they decree is what it will be, that is wrong and is just a shadow totalitarianism effort to control and abuse both country and it's population.
