{"id":209806,"date":"2010-01-21T14:15:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2010:\/\/3.33947"},"modified":"2010-01-21T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:09:27","slug":"supreme-court-sides-with-corporate-campaign-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/209806","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Sides With Corporate Campaign Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Businesses and labor unions, start your checkbooks: The Supreme Court’s rollback<\/a> of a 100-year-old ban on corporate spending in elections will mean an even larger torrent of TV commercials and direct mail come election time.<\/p>\n

It was a ruling seen as good for Republicans and bad for Democrats, although the AFL-CIO<\/a> also pushed for the decision.<\/p>\n

Fred Wertheimer, founder campaign finance reform group Democracy 21<\/a>, wrote in the New York Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Today’s Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case is a
\ndisaster for the American people. It will unleash unprecedented amounts
\nof corporate “influence-seeking” money on our elections and create
\nunprecedented opportunities for corporate “influence-buying”
\ncorruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Politico<\/a> noted that Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold, whose eponymous campaign finance reform bill was partially gutted by the ruling, “had divergent reactions – perhaps reflecting the impact the ruling may have on each of their parties.” McCain said he was “disappointed”; Feingold called it a “terrible mistake” to “roll back laws that have limited the role of corporate money in federal elections since Teddy Roosevelt was president.”<\/p>\n

Now that the Supremes have spoken, look for a mad scramble as corporations, unions, and assorted political players assess the new groundrules and attempt to extract maximum advantage for the midterm elections.


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Businesses and labor unions, start your checkbooks: The Supreme Court’s rollback of a 100-year-old ban on corporate spending in elections will mean an even larger torrent of TV commercials and direct mail come election time. It was a ruling seen as good for Republicans and bad for Democrats, although the AFL-CIO also pushed for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}