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Janet Ybarra
Democrat
Former Washington Journalist
Contributor on The Bipartisan Press
A prominent House Democrat has begun anew, for the first time in nearly five years, the constitutional process to overturn the landmark Citizens United Supreme Court decision.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and increase regulation of campaign contributions and spending. In 2010, the high court’s decision struck down decades of restrictions on corporate campaign spending and allowed corporations to spend unlimited funds to run campaign advertisements.
Schiff’s effort is the first attempt at a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United since a similar effort failed in the Senate in September 2014.
Momentum to overturn the decision has been building since nearly when the court handed it down, according to a timeline assembled by the good government non-profit Public Citizen.
“The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United overturned decades of legal precedent and has enabled billions in dark money to pour into our elections,” Schiff said. “Amending the Constitution is an extraordinary step, but it is the only way to safeguard our democratic process against the threat of unrestrained and anonymous spending by wealthy individuals and corporations. This amendment will restore power to everyday citizens.”
COMMENTS (1)
As a prominent Libertarian has said: Citizens United was decided on a brief by the Libertarians and the Union rank-and-file on free speech grounds, and ending 100 years of oppression of third parties and regulating democracy by the far-left Democrats. They’re at it again, trying to shut the Libertarians up with backing by billionaires who hate Libertarian’s successful efforts on deregulation removing the regulations that enrich these billionaires and the far-left by plundering the nation and shutting up dissent.
Regulation is another word for fascism. People are waking up to that. Schiff is a fascist who wants to promote the far-left agenda of destroying the 1st Amendment.
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