News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits

[Thomas Beshear]

Yeah, we're screwed. Bye bye democracy.

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> Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:12 AM
> Subject: News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits
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> Breaking News Alert
> The New York Times
> Thu, January 21, 2010 -- 10:11 AM ET
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>
> Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits
>
> The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend
> freely to support or oppose candidates for president and
> Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in
> federal campaigns.
>
> The court on Thursday overturned a 20-year-old ruling that
> said corporations can be prohibited from using money from
> their general treasuries to pay for campaign ads. The
> decision almost certainly will also allow labor unions to
> participate more freely in campaigns and threatens similar
> limits imposed by 24 states.
>
> The justices also struck down part of the landmark
> McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union- and
> corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election
> campaigns.
>
> Read More:
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/21/us/AP-US-Supreme-Court-Campaign-Finance.html?emc=na
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