re: #127 drcordell

The majority’s approach to corporate electioneering marks a dramatic break from our past. Congress has placed special limitations on campaign spending by corporations ever since the passage of the Tillman Act in 1907, ch. 420, 34 Stat. 864. We have unanimously concluded that this “reflects a permissible assessment of the dangers posed by those entities to the electoral process,” FEC v. National Right to Work Comm. , 459 U. S. 197, 209 (1982) (NRWC) , and have accepted the “legislative judgment that the special characteristics of the corporate structure require particularly careful regulation,” id. , at 209–210. The Court today rejects a century of history when it treats the distinction between corporate and individual campaign spending as an invidious novelty born of Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce , 494 U. S. 652 (1990) .

good quote. that’s the part where they take “spending” and try to make it sound like “speech”. this is not a question of what folks can spend. It’s a question of whether they can say something. years of campaign spending law have not been overturned.

“Congress violates the First Amendment when it decrees that some speakers may not engage in political speech at election time, when it matters most.”

bingo

what else?