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Exclusive: How corporations secretly move millions to fund political ads
Brad Jacobson/Raw Story The Supreme Court’s seismic January ruling that corporations are free to spend unlimited amounts of their profits to advertise for or against candidates may have been the latest shakeup of campaign finance – but gaping holes already allow corporations to spend enormous sums without leaving a paper trail, a Raw Story investigation [...]
Corporations running for office
Although there’s a part of me that says “spoof!” or maybe I just desperately hope it’s some sort of staged event at showing how wrong-headed the USSC was in allowing corporations personhood to this extent, it wasn’t hard to see this coming: Corporation Murray Hill, Inc. has decided to run for the Maryland’s 8th congressional [...]
Jim Hightower on the Corporate Coup of Our Government, Courtesy of Supreme Court
Jim Hightower/Buzzflash Guest Commentary Last September, I wrote The Hightower Lowdown about how the Roberts’ Court could throw out over 100 years of campaign finance law. Remember their names: Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas. Yesterday, from within the dark isolation of the Supreme Court, these five men pulled off a black-robed coup against the [...]
Obama says court ruling a blow to democracy
Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama launched an extraordinary attack on the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying a ruling on corporate donations to political campaigns this week “strikes at democracy itself.”
Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress