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In Reply to: RE: Gerrymandering should be strictly verboten. posted by Sondek on May 12, 2022 at 06:51:33
SuperPACs, big money donations...yeah, I know, the originalists on the Supreme Court who treat the Constitution like a shopping list somehow managed to find "money equals speech" in the First Amendment.
Right now, AIPAC is running attack ads against a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the Pennsylvania 12th district--my district.
Her opponent for the nomination is a DINO, of course. Former corporate attorney, oil and gas lobbyist, etc.
The attack ads are beyond misleading, claiming the candidate voted against Biden's infrastructure plan even though she isn't in Congress. Wasn't in Congress last year either. And frankly, I would have voted against the infrastructure plan also. Too much money for new roads, not enough for public transit, not enough to fix the old roads.
Should be blatantly illegal. Should be illegal for a billionaire from California to pump enough money into an Ohio primary to decide the race, too.
And of course, I can't vote in the primary since I'm registered Green. Another way our elections are a fraud.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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Citizens United is absolutely THE worst SCOTUS decision of my lifetime.
Unlimited, dark-money to buy whatever cause suits your fancy is anti-democratic. No two ways about it.
It is interesting that the constitutional fundamentalists on the court found the words campaign funding between the lines, but they can't seem to find abortion or contraception in there.
Originalism is the biggest, stinkiest, most disgusting pile of human shit--worse than bullshit--in jurisprudence.
The founders are all dead. Nobody can ask the what they were thinking when they stuck a superfluous comma or two.
It's just an excuse to rule according to the existing prejudices of a particular judge or justice.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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