Republicans Fight to Kill Lingering Campaign Finance Regulation after SCOTUS Obliterated the Rest

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Originally published at: Republicans Fight to Kill Lingering Campaign Finance Regulation after SCOTUS Obliterated the Rest

As Republicans came before the Supreme Court Tuesday to get rid of one of the last regulations governing our wild west campaign finance system, the colloquies fell flat.  Justice Sonia Sotomayor took on the “slippery slope” role. She reminded listeners of the Watergate-era corruption that gave rise to the regulation that the petitioners in this…

[jrw]

The legacy of the Roberts court will in large part be ensuring the primacy of money, and those who have it, over all the other considerations of a civil society.

[mattf]

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Justice Samuel Alito complained Tuesday that the infamous decision has been “much” and “unfairly maligned.”

Alito complained later on in the arguments that Kavanaugh and Jackson’s concerns about the continuing pattern of incrementally fighting regulations was “speculative” and not something the Court should consider.

Once, just once in my lifetime I want to read about an other Justice turning to Alito and saying, “Jesus Christ, you insufferable snot-goblin, you really are an asshole.”

It’s one thing to be a part of some of the decisions which have most harmed American democracy but it takes a special type of arrogance for him to then act as though everyone else is too stupid to understand how great those decisions really were.

[benthere]

I still fail to understand the dubious logic that money is the equivalent of speech. More money = more undue influence = more corruption, in my thinking.

[dont]

Add to $$$$ = speach, corporations are people.

ETA. Santa Clara County vs Southern Pacific RR, 1886(?). The height of the gilded age. We are in the same place today.

[benthere]

Yes, Mitt Romney, aka “Etch-A-Mitt” reminded us of that!

[eldonlazar]

Fucking bastards! But, I repeat myself.

[zandru]

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Alito complained later on in the arguments that Kavanaugh and Jackson’s concerns about the continuing pattern of incrementally fighting regulations was “speculative” and not something the Court should consider.

It’s funny, is it not, how right wingers are always complaining about “the slippery slope” and how dangerous it is to allow even the slightest liberalization of whatever? But now, since they’re riding that slippery slope to unstoppable cash-greased dominance, it’s nothing to worry about!

[demosthenes59]

Corrupt bought and paid for Republican operatives (the MAGA 6 on the Supreme Court) want even more in bribes.

[zlohcuc]

We now live in a shell of America…its former self has disappeared into a morass of influence and rule through unbridled wealth, corruption and legal manipulation. We can dream that all of this perversion will be undone…The path to doing so seems arduous and unbearable.