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Pepsidog

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6. Whitehouse has been screaming this for years to anyone who will listen. Roberts, as I recall,

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Mon Sep 11, 2023, 01:50 PM

Sep 2023

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dismissed the idea that money in campaigns leads to corruption. So add Citizens United, along with the tossing out pre-clearance with the Voting Rights Act decision because we elected a black president and are now a post-racial society, to the list of SCOTUS fails. ( I forget the name of the VRA case).

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Kick dalton99a Sep 2023 #1

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K&R spanone Sep 2023 #4

Whitehouse has been screaming this for years to anyone who will listen. Roberts, as I recall, Pepsidog Sep 2023 #6

And has ANYONE of significance paid ANY attention? calimary Sep 2023 #8

Sadly,I agree. Pepsidog Sep 2023 #10

Kick -- kick -- kick Hekate Sep 2023 #7

You can go back farther DownriverDem Sep 2023 #9

The humor of this is Citizen United destroyed the GOP Johonny Sep 2023 #11

That "no paywall" link led me to infinite capchas... malthaussen Sep 2023 #12

Some of us are shaking our heads wondering why Bidens' numbers are tied with tfg, maybe its 2live is 2fly Sep 2023 #13