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haveahart's JournalWell, we won't be buying a new car for at least 18 months if we can hold out that long.
Damage to new and used car lots in the paths of the hurricanes is epic.
Why Citizens United is my litmus test and why it undergirds my HRC support.
The hit jobs on Hillary have been fierce and long. This is why I refuse to cave to the HRC haters.
Ever since she was attacked for Bill Clinton's indiscretions in the '90s I have supported her. She demonstrate the strength and resilience of many, many women who give so much of themselves for others. This is why Citizens United is my litmus test.
ORIGINS OF CITIZENS UNITED CASE
The Citizens United legal case stems from the group's intention to broadcast “Hillary: The Movie,” a documentary it produced that was critical of then-U.S.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, who at the time was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. The film examined Clinton's record in the Senate and as the first lady to President Bill Clinton.
The FEC claimed the documentary represented "electioneering communications" as defined by the McCain-Feingold law, known as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.
McCain-Feingold prohibited such communications by broadcast, cable, or satellite within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election.
Citizens United challenged the decision but was turned away by the District Court for the District of Columbia. The group appealed the case to the Supreme Court.
CITIZENS UNITED DECISION
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in favor of Citizens United overruled two lower-court rulings.
The first was Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 decision that upheld restrictions on corporate political spending. The second was McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, a 2003 decision that upheld the 2002 McCain-Feingold law banning “electioneering communications” paid for by corporations.
Voting with the Kennedy in the majority were Chief Justice John G. Roberts and associate justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Dissenting were justices John P. Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.
Kennedy, writing for the majority, opined: "Governments are often hostile to speech, but under our law and our tradition it seems stranger than fiction for our Government to make this political speech a crime."
The four dissenting justices described the majority opinion as a "rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt."
OPPOSITION TO CITIZENS UNITED RULING
President Barack Obama leveled perhaps the most vocal criticism of the Citizens United decision by directly taking on the Supreme Court, saying the five majority justices “handed a huge victory to the special interests and their lobbyists.”
Obama lashed out at the ruling in his 2010 State of the Union address.
"With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests - including foreign corporations - to spend without limit in our elections," Obama said during his address to a joint session of Congress.
"I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people," the president said.
Our first order of business once Dems regain power in all three branches is this:
Weed out all the fascists infiltrators within all the agencies of government. It won't be easy but it is doable. The current civil servants are watching and waiting. Begin with the Department of Justice.
Obama DID NOT violate the Constitution with DACA. He issued an Executive Order.
HE DID NOT MAKE A LAW. He did what other Presidents have done for eons. The Executive Order will expire. No LAW was made or enacted by Obama.
Do not allow them to get away with meme. DACA has NOT been ruled "unconstitutional" as of this date. When and if it is then they can make that charge. The Constitution says that only Congress can declare war, yet Trump is talking about bombing the hell out of NK and Congress has not yet passed a war powers act. If SCOTUS decides that DACA was unconstitutional (and it may) then let the Congress deal with it by passing a law to protect the innocent. We are not making America white again. This land wasn't white to begin with, it never was and never will be.
While searching out some info on the Clinton Foundation, I came across this little known list.
Notice which charities are the most guilty on this list. https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=topten.detail&listid=28
I said it before and I will say it again (NK)
and I am serious. Send Dennis back to negotiate a deal with KIM to start an international basketball league with six games against USA best teams. Make him Commissioner and let him have personal team. But it can only happen if he promised and allows verification that he will stop development of nukes and allow his people freedom to travel. He won't allow the latter so, that is what we give up in the negotiation.
To quote an infamous person, "WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?"
As of today, I really do want to see Melania's citizenship papers, and the history of her documentat
to become a citizen.
No WALL for DACA passage. Do not give Trump another thing. He does not deserve it.
I hope this entire DACA issues sinks the GOP ship forever!
Lots to talk about today but i want to start here. I was out doing school shopping for the grands
and missed Sessions. But I was told he sounded like a heartless, racist, bigoted, inhumane trope.
I did hear portions of the presser with Sara...I am livid!! It's ok for Trump to use Executive Orders for whatever he wants. It makes me furious for the GOP and Trumpsters to keep saying Obama violated the Constitution when he passed DACA by Executive Order. After he tried to get the Congress to do what they should have been doing with immigration we never would be here.
Fuck the GOP and Trump's cowardly ass. I hope they have to stew in their own piss. Speaking of piss...get those golden shower videos out there. It is now very necessary to get Trump out of office.
My heart goes out to DACA recipients. i can't even begin to imagine their terror and trauma.
Trump trying to be strategic asking that the debt ceiling be tied to Harvey funding.
They really don't need to do that! Just pass two separate pieces of legislation as clean bills. One for Harvey and one for the debt ceiling. Stop trying to give the GOP cover for their votes and stop trying to make Trump look like a thinking President.
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