{"id":360756,"date":"2010-02-24T22:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/study-shows-surprising-unity-in-popular-outrage-at-recent-supreme-court-decision\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T22:01:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:01:20","slug":"study-shows-surprising-unity-in-popular-outrage-at-recent-supreme-court-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/360756","title":{"rendered":"Study Shows Surprising Unity In Popular Outrage At Recent Supreme Court Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Court+CN+EDITORIAL_1961_19627289_0_0_7037656_300.jpg\" alt=\"Study shows surprising unity in popular outrage at recent Supreme Court decision \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">A recent survey of public opinion has found that regardless of their political views and voting preferences, most Americans are united in their criticism of the recent Supreme Court decision that relaxed campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n<p>Citing constitutional rights to free speech, the highest court decided Jan. 21 to ease the limits on corporate campaign donations, allowing businesses, unions and advocacy groups to air political ads. <\/p>\n<p>The decision came under fire from many politicians, with rivals such as Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) and President Obama speaking out against it, and it now appears the majority of Americans agree with both of them. <\/p>\n<p>According to a new <i>Washington  Post<\/i>&#8211;<i>ABC News<\/i> poll, approximately 80 percent of Americans said they are against the court&#8217;s 5-4 decision in Citizens v. Federal Election Commission, <i>The Washington Post<\/i> reported. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;If there&#8217;s one thing that Americans from the left, right and center can all agree on, it&#8217;s that they don&#8217;t want more special interests in our politics,&quot; said Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), quoted by the news provider. <\/p>\n<p>Schumer is spearheading the effort announced by President Obama during last month&#8217;s State of the Union speech to pass legislation that would limit the impact of the court&#8217;s decision.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19627289-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19627289\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey of public opinion has found that regardless of their political views and voting preferences, most Americans are united in their criticism of the recent Supreme Court decision that relaxed campaign finance laws. Citing constitutional rights to free speech, the highest court decided Jan. 21 to ease the limits on corporate campaign donations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360756","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\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}