I read this great piece of commentary on the SCOTUS ruling by a poster called smintheus on unbossed.com, in which the said poster came up with a relatively easy fix to the ruling.
The meat of his approach is quoted below in a this key graph;
"To my mind, however, the first step is pretty obvious. Congress should prohibit any corporation from engaging in this new political spending if it has any non-American shareholders, or owners. Because after all, foreigners have no 1st amendment protections."
Read the whole thing, it's great.
http://www.unbossed.com/...
As the poster points out, the likelihood that any American corporation has no foreign investors is slim to nil, and even finding out who is who would be virtually impossible, and perhaps most importantly, what corporation would be willing to drive away any such investment to gain political influence?
This is a law that could very well get support across the political spectrum given how touchy the right has always been about sovereignty, and their fear of foreigners. So, this is something that should fit Obama's call for a bi-partisan solution to a tee.
Besides, if I am understanding this right, if we passed such a law we might be able to eliminate corporate spending all together, except through individuals. At the same time, labor unions would still have the right to give unlimited sums, thus creating an "unintended outcome" Roberts never planned on. The current SCOTUS is bound to give individuals an unlimited right to give too at some point, but we aren't at that point yet. Besides, all the rich aren't Repugs and I'll bet Soros would pitch in a pretty penny.
If you agree please Rec this diary so the concept will get the attention it deserves!!