The so-called Citizens United case offers the Supreme Court a chance to severely curtail the free speech abuses of the Federal Election Commission. John Samples, Director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government, Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Steve Simpson and George Mason University law professor Allison Hayward weigh in. This video was produced by Austin Bragg ( www.twitter.com ) and Caleb Brown ( www.twitter.com ). … citizens united Hillary the Movie federal …
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yeah good luck with that. If they actually did that, they would be teaching kids about the very laws they subvert.
That’s the funny thing, since the constitution doesn’t give the federal government to establish neither a holiday nor what is taught in schools
and if I recall correctly, some senator DID try to pass something like that
I love the constitution, the federal government should establish a day when every school would have to teach about the constitution
Great video. Good job CATO.
Just like you can keep a frog in a pan and boil him by raising the temp. by just one degree you can go from free to Govt run society slowly and without noticing.
Those who warn people are just laughed at just like Moses and the flood.
Fuck you
I’m wondering where the fuckers were when Gore was running his political campaign ad.
You know … the one with the hurricanes …
or more likely ignore protests and insist they’re defending the people’s rights
Yeah. It’s called newspeak. You can’t get definitions by just looking up words in the dictionary. “Machine gun” includes .22 pistols if and when they want it to. The second doesn’t say “Shall not be infringed too badly” or “Shall not be infringed by all that much,” but that’s how they read it. If you can pull that off, words don’t mean anything anymore, so what do us proles need the first amendment for anyway? They’ll probably say the act of making the law was unconstitutional…but the law’s ok
What about the words “Congress shall make no law” does congress no understand. Do representatives need to go through a special class where they learn a different English?
There should be some way to expose the money trail while still allowing for political speech. So say as much as you want about a candidate but don’t donate too much money to their campaign… or maybe I am missing something.
Yes we actually do ban books, you should be taking on more than the FEC.
Hey, I’m still looking for the exemptions in the First Amendment that allow the government to outlaw I-know-it-when-I-see-it obscenity or cigarette ads or the alcohol content in beer. I must be blind.
Of course, who’s going to stand up for obscenity? Most people won’t even admit to looking at ordinary porn. We’re a nation of pussies (not the good kind, though).
Stand Up For The 1st Amendment! Stand Up For Free Speech!
Thank God in Heaven for Cato, a voice of sanity in a nation determined to go insane.
Or is it the other way around?
So the argument that elected officials only do certain things just because they got funding from an industry or coalition is a load of crap. Elected officials very rarely make political moves just to satisfy donors. With the huge amount of campaign contributors on each side of an issue, what’s the point of acting beholden to one side or another? And it’s not as if money is everything. Liberal groups or candidates CAN win, too, and many times do, much to my chagrin sometimes.
There’s absolutely no evidence that money in politics influences politicians. I mean, yeah, maybe candidates are influenced by the possibility of losing funding from particular interest groups or corporations to vote or not vote a certain way, but they get funding BECAUSE of their record and positions! Not because the groups honestly believe that a little campaign funding will make them 100% beholden. Candidates can easily switch sides and get money from OTHER interest groups if they want.
The BCRA restrictions are absolute bullshit! I wish the campaign finance reform idiots would just get over it already and realize it DOESN’T WORK! Money will always be an important factor in politics, and we can’t eliminate the influence of corporate money or “corrupt” money, as some might refer to it. Money in politics is here to stay. People who have clout and favorable positions on the issues as well as a good record WILL get the funding they need from private donors.
Thanks Cato for posting this video! I LOVE THE CATO INSTITUTE!
F-ing hell! Scary
This kind of stuff scares the hell out of me.
Were were they when George Soros was pumping two hundred million into Obama’s campaign. ? That my kitties is the most obscene form of campaign abuse.
Holy lord…