{"id":266405,"date":"2010-02-02T16:18:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75562"},"modified":"2010-02-02T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:18:04","slug":"a-bicameral-call-for-a-constitutional-amendment-to-nullify-citizens-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/266405","title":{"rendered":"A Bicameral Call for a Constitutional Amendment to Nullify Citizens United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoping to nullify the Supreme Court&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/22\/us\/politics\/22scotus.html?ref=todayspaper\" >recent decision<\/a> freeing corporations to spend infinitely on federal elections, Reps. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) today introduced a proposed constitutional amendment &#8220;permitting Congress and the States to regulate the expenditure of funds by corporations engaging in political speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ruling reached by the Roberts\u2019 Court [sic] overturned decades of legal precedent by allowing corporations unfettered spending in our political campaigns,\u201d Edwards <a href=\"http:\/\/donnaedwards.house.gov\/index.cfm?sectionid=54&amp;sectiontree=29,54&amp;itemid=121\" >said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cAnother law will not rectify this disastrous decision.\u00a0 A Constitutional Amendment is necessary to undo what this Court has done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not only House leaders eyeing that option. Testifying before the Senate Rules Committee this morning, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) also promoted that idea.<span id=\"more-75562\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need a constitutional amendment to make it clear once and for all that corporations do not have the same free speech rights as individuals,&#8221; Kerry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/politicalintelligence\/2010\/02\/kerry_calls_for_3.html\" >said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For campaign finance reform supporters, it&#8217;s exactly the right move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The court&#8217;s overreach is so shocking, and the certain consequences so damaging, that we must have a constitutional corrective,&#8221; Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, said in a statement.\u00a0&#8221;The First Amendment was never intended to protect the likes of ExxonMobil, Pfizer or Goldman Sachs, nor should it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoping to nullify the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent decision freeing corporations to spend infinitely on federal elections, Reps. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) today introduced a proposed constitutional amendment &#8220;permitting Congress and the States to regulate the expenditure of funds by corporations engaging in political speech.&#8221; &#8220;The ruling reached by the Roberts\u2019 Court [sic] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266405","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}