Supreme Court Abets Corporate America

In another example of who really governs the United States, the land’s highest court voted 5-4 to reverse a 20-year-old ruling that prohibited corporations from spending their general treasuries on campaign ads for presidential and congressional candidates.

The Supreme Court did not reverse course on a provision that prohibits direct contributions to candidates from corporations and unions. Proponents of the law’s new lenient limits have always suggested that strict spending limits on political campaigns were unconstitutional by censoring free speech.

On the other hand, the court’s dissenting view is that “The court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation,” said Justice John Paul Stevens.

Essentially, those with money – i.e. corporations and unions – will have even greater influence in federal campaigns by spending abundant sums of cash on ads geared to their politician of choice, which undoubtedly lead to government favors of all sorts. Yes, this scribe is a cynic, and this law does not benefit the little man.