Posted on 04/02/2014 7:17:50 AM PDT by PaulCruz2016
Breaking: scotus strikes down aggregate campaign contribution limits 5-4 per Chief Justice Roberts in McCutcheon case.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
All I wanna know is does this ruling help offset the damage done by big union and corporate campaign contributions?
Is this a good thing?
Common sense may yet survive.
With very very few exceptions anything that removes limits from the people is a good thing.
If I’m not mistaken this was a challenge to the Campaign Finance law of 2002 (John McCain’s baby). That limited maximum aggregate donation from an individual to $46,000 a campaign. A Republican businessman challenged that as a limit on his free speech, and apparently won. It will be interesting to see how far the ruling goes, and if it just threw out the $46,000 aggregate or the $2,000 limit to individual candidates as well.
The Spice must flooooooooowwwwwww!!...........................
only thing am finding is from ruling from 2010 ...
Sure makes sense to me.
To limit the amount a candidate can spend on his own campaign doesn’t seem legit—and if that’s the case, there shouldn’t be a limit to what one can contribute to other campaigns, either.
In response to case, a coalition of environmental, voting rights, labor, and government reform groups rallied outside of the Supreme Court. Environmentalists from Greenpeace and the Sierra Club protested what Phil Radford of Greenpeace called a “legalized system of corruption through money in politics” that had resulted in few major environmental laws passing in the U.S. since 1980.
If the leftist loons supported this law, and the Supreme Court threw it out on a 5-4 Conservative/Liberal break. I would say it was a really good thing for us. Expect to see liberal heads explode and the president give the Supreme Court another finger wagging lecture next State of the Union.
Soros just opened his checkbook.
If this would have been in effect in 1996' Jack Kemp would have been President on Steve Forbes dime. Mr Forbes said he only ran because he couldn't give what he wanted to Jack....
Have found where the supreme court was scheduled to rehear the case. So could be as you say. 5-4 and ended. Still looking.
With very very few exceptions anything that removes limits from the people is a good thing.
Jack Kemp. Haven’t heard that name in awhile.
Wish we had a few more like him.
Labor Unions will now have to play on a even playing field. all to the good.
McCain has truly been one of the worst senators of the last half century. He’s done far more harm than many liberals.
*Make that ‘Democrat liberals’.
I would rather he do that than what he does now: create numerous tax-exempt organizations that are difficult to tie to his name.
His name should be poison when associated with one of his commie candidates . . . maybe make it harder for McCain, Cantor and their ilk to be secretly funded by Soros.
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