Death and Taxes Mag : Supreme Court said it’s not in the business of leveling the playing field so that average Americans can counteract corporate money. Indeed, their business is to ensure corporations always have the upper hand.

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This is good for the Republican Party and their Wealthy Sponsors :

Conservative Judicial Activism in the 5-4 Supreme Court overruled the Ninth Circuit and struck down Arizona’s Citizens Clean Elections Act. Dissent by Elena Kagan. The Two Obama Appointees are becoming stars of defending Freedom and Democracy.

"The ruling in the Supreme Court’s Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club Pac et al., v. Bennett, Secretary of State of Arizona, et al." - "The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act had tried to clean up elections from corporate and union influence by offering public matching funds to those who accept campaign finance restrictions, but now its work has been dismantled by the conservative Supreme Court."

Death and Taxes Magazine
Supreme Court Favors Corporations in Campaign Finance Reform Ruling, Again
By DJ Pangburn
Monday, June 27, 2011


Supreme Court Favors Corporations in Campaign Finance Reform Ruling, Again


Some excerpts :

Corporations are people and campaign finance reform laws violate their 1st and 14th amendment rights. They are thus afforded the same free speech and equal protection rights that you and I enjoy. But, this was only an issue once the corporate campaign contributions were threatened. It was a legal argument, and a damned effective one, particularly with the Roberts Court.

And with the Roberts Court’s most recent decision regarding Campaign Finance Reform, corporations are also afforded the added luxury of being able to outspend average Americans and thus disseminate their self-interested political aims nearly without limit. Their political donations and soft money advertisements, because of the enormous funds at their disposal, can more effectively distort the truth and influence average Americans.

To be fair, corporations are comprised of individuals—of Americans (mostly). There is, however, a major difference between a corporate “person” and a singular, biological person: the latter dies, while the former sheds its constituent stockholders and executives like an evolving organism. And when the latter dies, the vote dies with them. The former is thus infinitely more powerful than the single individual—an immortal entity with infinitely more money, lawyers and accountants at its disposal.

And even if that single individual bands together with other single individuals to form an issue advocacy group to counter the corporation or joins a union, the corporation will almost always have more financial resources available to them in influencing elected officials and public opinion.

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