SCOTUS watch: Campaign finance

Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:12 AM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Courts

For most observers who listened to the Supreme Court hearing yesterday, it seems the consensus is that the court could very well overturn much of the campaign finance system giving corporations and unions more power to spend money.

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What's wrong with this picture...a corporation is granted all the rights of an individual under the Constitution, yet is protected from being held accountable or meeting the obligations required of individuals? Corporations should not be provided the ability to own and run this country, and our founding fathers certainly didn't support such a proposition.

griff,seattle (Sent Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:43 PM)

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