Austin Adult Entertainment: Disaster Capitalism Comes To Capitol Hill
For OpEdNews: Joe Quinn – Writer
Many civil liberties groups in the US are up in arms over Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United V Federal Election Commission, that gives corporations free reign to spend as much money as they can afford (which is a lot) to influence American political election outcomes. This is the same gaggle of Supreme Court Justices (more or less) that gave us, literally, the glorious reign of George Dubya Bush. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann dedicated one of his ’special messages’ to the ruling which he said made all US politicians ‘prostitutes‘ to big corporations.
Eh….so what’s new? Here’s the relevant part of the ruling:
The relevant factors in deciding whether to adhere to [precedents] beyond workability – the precedent’s antiquity, the reliance interests at stake, and whether the decision was well reasoned – counsel in favor of abandoning Austin, which itself contravened the precedents of Buckley and Bellotti. As already explained, Austin was not well reasoned. It is also undermined by experience since …
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