Judge: Corporate donations ban unconstitutional

A judge has ruled that the campaign finance law banning corporations from making contributions to federal candidates is unconstitutional.

In a ruling issued late Thursday, U.S. District Judge James Cacheris tossed out part of the indictment against two men accused of illegally reimbursing donors to Hillary Clinton's Senate and presidential campaigns. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - May. 27, 2011

Barakat focuses the story narrowly on the legal case news and avoids editorializing.

This is a critical subject affecting whether democracy survives or whether world government becomes an oligarchical corporatocracy, run by rich undemocratically selected elites who run their corporations with dictatorial powers. The obscenity of an "anti-activist" right wing supreme court legislating this monstrous faux concept as activist legislators on the bench is a tragedy in the demise of democracy.

Cacheris noted in his ruling that only one other court has addressed the issue in the wake of Citizens United. A federal judge in Minnesota ruled the other way, allowing a state ban on corporate contributions to stand.

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