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cascadiance

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2. You are right that there are federal laws preventing corporations directly contributing...
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 06:59 PM
Sep 2014

But the way these courts have worked with "corporate personhood" I'm sure that some right wing judge either in a lower court or on SCOTUS will get in their mind that corporations through the so-called constitutional "rights" of "corporate personhood" qualify them as "individuals" to make campaign contributions, and therefore overturn this law, just like they in effect overturned McCain Feingold legislation earlier.

The money is free speech campaign part of move to amend is critical to overturning the McCutcheon ruling, but this other case should hopefully at least be some ammo in a lawyer's suitcase to present if some other corporation tries to get the right through a right wing controlled court to contribute directly to campaigns as an "individual". Precedent has been set that corporate persons aren't U.S. Citizens in government rulings, and people need to be citizens to make direct contributions to political campaigns.

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