Are you ready for this guy Daily Kos?
For those folks, like me who thinks that money talks and bullshit walks in Politics, and that
the Koch Brothers and their band of merry trillionairs bigots has us, and me specifically worried that the upcoming mid-term elections and the general in 2016 might actually go to the highest bidder.
Well people, the wait to find out is near.
An Obscure new SCOTUS case may be worse than Citizens United Sometime in the next three months perhaps as early as next week – the Supreme Court will issue its next big campaign finance decision, a ruling that reformers worry will further open floodgates of one-percenter campaign cash. The case, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, concerns a challenge by the RNC and conservative CEO Shaun McCutcheon to the federal laws restricting how much one person can donate to candidates and party committees each cycle.
I take note of this case due to Wisconsin`s band of Republican merry politicians who control both houses of government are pushing for a bill that would allow them to throw money at there favorite cadidates running for office..during working hours on the floor as they debate the state`s interests. No limits, they can just go deep in their pockets with no questions asked, by anyone. I think Scott Walker likes this except that he says knowing nothing about it.
“Really what’s at stake here is whether there’s just a few hundred or a few thousand people who can dominate the entire election process in the U.S.,” warned attorney Adam Lioz, a counsel for the progressive think tank Demos and co-author of the amicus brief filed by groups including the NAACP, the Sierra Club and the American Federation of Teachers. In a Monday interview, Lioz responded to arguments from Mitch McConnell, Antonin Scalia and First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams; discussed why neither side is satisfied with a 1976 precedent; and argued the legitimacy of America’s political process was under threat. A condensed version of our conversation follows.
I am quite certain that there is no single Democrat who does not despise Citizens United as much as I do. It just sickens me to see the way money dominates politics today as oposed to pre-Citizens United when corporatioins were still metal and mortar structures and not real people.
Beside claims that I have read about, that Supreme Court Chief justice John Roberts, perjured himself during his confirmation hearing, nothing I have seen while he sits on the bench suggests otherwise. Perhaps it is only that I am a Democrat and his rulings and decisions of late have gone against me and people of color, like the Arizona ruling that upheld the "show me your papers" please. So shit, today I am officially predicting that the high court, Scalia and Company will hold: "That if money talks in politics, it is a no-brainer that money is people, who can decide who wins elections".
Well, I don`t know about this prediction. It may sound crazy to you. But knowing the right-wing leaning court, nothing that they decide is sane, as far as I am concerned.
So good people, Democrats, brace for more "things" to be ruled as being people who may be more powerful than Citizens United able to donate shit-piles of money on their favorite horse in future political battles in this country...your country. or so you thought.
I could never link to the original post at Salon. I give you the alternative link below as it is the same story.
Enjoy and curse.
Scalia`s looming fiasco