In a 5 to 4 decision the Supreme Court opened the way for Unions to particpaite with the Party System.

But, they also stated Corporations are the same as people with Freedom of Speech.

It's "W'rong.

It is a hostile court toward 'individuals' in the USA. This is NOT the a good and certainly doesn't display the insight of The Burger Court.



WASHINGTON, DC (click title to entry for video - thank you) – A coalition of public interest organizations strongly condemned today's ruling by the US Supreme Court allowing unlimited corporate money in US elections and announced that it is launching a campaign to amend the United States Constitution to overturn the ruling. The groups, Voter Action, Public Citizen, the Center for Corporate Policy, and the American Independent Business Alliance, say the Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC poses a serious and direct threat to democracy. They aim, through their constitutional amendment campaign, to correct the judiciary's creation of corporate rights under the First Amendment over the past three decades. Immediately following the Court's ruling, the groups unveiled a new website – www.freespeechforpeople.org – devoted to this campaign....


People are not corporations and corporations are not people. George Washington is rolling over in his grave. I believe we need to revisit legislative efforts.

Supreme Court overturns Michigan campaign finance ruling (click here)

By Ed Brayton 1/21/10 10:58 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated decision in Citizens United v Federal Elections Commission this morning. To almost no one’s surprise, the court struck down Austin v Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 ruling that forbid corporations from spending money from their general treasury to support or oppose candidates during elections.
Though most of the ruling is a relatively simple 5-4 decision with Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the court’s four most conservative members (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito) in the majority and the four more liberal members (Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor) in the minority, it becomes very complicated in regard to one section of the ruling....