http://dagblog.com/link/coming-tsunami-slime-12839 Comments for "The Coming Tsunami of Slime" en http://dagblog.com/comment/147841#comment-147841 <a id="comment-147841"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/coming-tsunami-slime-12839">The Coming Tsunami of Slime</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><blockquote> <p>Super PACs: Worse to Come<br /><br /> By Jeffrey Toobin, News Desk @ The New Yorker, Jan. 24, 2012<br /><br /> [....] This strange legal superstructure for our campaigns has come about largely because of Supreme Court decisions, especially the Citizens United case, from 2010. And though many people profess horror at the way money is dominating the campaign, it seems clear that, based on the way the Court is heading, we’ll soon look back on the campaign of 2012 and say those were the good old days.<br /><br /> [....] Speaking for the Court in Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., wrote for the majority, “Laws like Arizona’s matching funds provision that inhibit robust and wide-open political debate without sufficient justification cannot stand.”<br /><br /> [....] In short, the Court appears to be engaging in a wholesale deregulation of the campaign-finance system [....]<br /><br /> Read more <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/01/political-ads.html#ixzz1kbAAPHOd">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/01/political-ads.html...</a></p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:38:38 +0000 artappraiser comment 147841 at http://dagblog.com