\ndecision doesn’t invent out of nothing the idea of corporate spending on elections.
\nCompanies could already establish and donate to political action
\ncommittees (PACs), and as Dan argues<\/a>, this ruling could arguably allow smaller businesses who lacked the resources to establish PACs to get in the game.<\/p>\n
Second, the White House could strike back. The Obama administration’s response could take several forms, as Marc Ambinder outlines<\/a>: The same day Obama decided to formally declare war on Wall Street’s biggest corporations, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can spend unlimited sums of money to elect their favorite candidates and defeat their enemies. Bad timing, much? If Obama passes this big-bank-busting regulation, it will almost certainly be with mostly Democratic votes. And those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212903","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\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(1) Pass a law to overrule the Court; (2) Pass a law to make company
\nshareholders approve political spending; (3) Pass a “stand-by-your-ad”
\nrequirement, such as “I’m Derek Thompson, the CEO of AtBixChan
\nTechnologies, and I approve this message.” My sense is that those are
\nlisted in increasing order of political likelihood.<\/p>\n
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