What was the Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance?”
Posted: January 22, 2010 02:55 PM BIO Become a Fan Get Email Alerts Bloggers’ Index Supreme Court Decision: More Votes for the Rich One of the more bizarre conversations that I have ever had was with Texas oil baron, H.L. Hunt, in 1960. I met him, of all odd places, at the General Exhibits Building at the Texas State Fair in Dallas. I was a college sophomore and Hunt, one of the world’s wealthiest men, was directing a small staff who were putting up an exhibit of his canned vegetables and a display of his book Alpaca. Surprisingly, or perhaps not so, the only people at the exhibit were Hunt and his employees. I walked up to the stand and picked up a flyer. Hunt came over, shook hands, and asked if I had read his book, which I had not. Hunt, an aged and courtly, white-haired man who was dressed in a white shirt with rolled up sleeves and baggy suit-pants held by suspenders. Much like any other author, he quietly described his book, which he said told of a talented young man who helped t
Reckless Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance: Special interests win, we lose The conservative majority of the Supreme Court just made a mockery of its claim to judicial restraint, overturning decades of law and legal precedent with a decision that will inevitably corrupt our democracy. More than a century ago, President Teddy Roosevelt saw what today’s court is blind to — that unleashing corporations to drench our political campaigns in special interest money will drown out the voice of regular citizens. Roosevelt banned corporate political spending by signing the Tillman Act in 1907. Four decades later, Congress extended the same ban to unions. Supreme courts have affirmed these limits as legitimate several times since. But Thursday, in a 5-4 decision, this supposedly conservative court swept all that away. So now, instead of soliciting their employees or members for voluntary donations to political action committees, unions and corporations can tap their general funds for politi
Reckless Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance: Special interests win, we lose The conservative majority of the Supreme Court just made a mockery of its claim to judicial restraint, overturning decades of law and legal precedent with a decision that will inevitably corrupt our democracy. More than a century ago, President Teddy Roosevelt saw what today’s court is blind to — that unleashing corporations to drench our political campaigns in special interest money will drown out the voice of regular citizens. Roosevelt banned corporate political spending by signing the Tillman Act in 1907. Four decades later, Congress extended the same ban to unions. Supreme courts have affirmed these limits as legitimate several times since.
Related Questions
- Does the Bush campaign have any additional avenues to challenge the ruling of the Florida Supreme Court that the manual recount results should be included in the final counts?
- Could the Supreme Court overrule 100 years of campaign finance precedent?
- What was the Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance?"
