Sen. Leahy on Supreme Court Campaign Finance Decision
Senator Leahy criticized the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC to overturn precedent and strike down limits to corporate financing of political advertisements in campaigns.
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/vidLink.php?b=1264689623&e=1264690445&n=002
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lamrof February 21st
These moving …
These moving corpses in the Supreme Court did nothing but united the American people under one banner. Give our power back to us.
meadbert February 21st
If Corporations do …
If Corporations do not have free speech, then The New York Times, MSNBC and YouTube do not have free speech. Congress and Senator Leahy could control each and every newspaper article and television show. They could even censor what we post on YouTube. This is incompatible with a free society and the supreme court was correct to defend our liberty.
chromacopy365 February 21st
The names, please, …
The names, please, of the judges who voted in favor of this. Each should be held accountable. Each should be required to face the American ppl and try to justify their lame decision. They have betrayed the public trust and are a disgrace to this country.
njattack February 21st
There is a movement …
There is a movement under way by Congress to REVERSE the corrupt Supreme Court’s decision. It will pass because 80% of Americans view this ruling as BAD NEWS!
80% of Americans are NOT interested in joining the Supreme Court’s manure pile. They intend to shovel it out!
Some of these justices need to be given a kick in the rear out the door. They are corrupt with the American Peoples’ interests NOT their goal. Their interests is their own FAT WALLETS via corporations. GANGSTER CORRUPTION
njattack February 21st
This is NOT a …
This is NOT a Conservative ruling by so called “Conservative” Justices. This is a TOTALITARIAN ruling by corrupt anti-American Justices.
Most U.S. corporatations are NOT Conservative nor are they pro-American. To the contrary they are ANTI-American.
If they were pro-American the ruling could be seen as good. But they are not.
This ruling opens the door for corporations to haul in foreigners to put Americans out of work. 20 MIL yanks unemplyed is not enough. They want 100 MIL!
BAD
prixred80 February 21st
lying drunk
lying drunk
diapasonify February 21st
I don’t need a …
I don’t need a source to tell me that this country has been controlled by private interests since the beginning.
Recall that the Boston Tea Party was not only a protest against British Colonial Government but to the makers of the tea on board that ship (East India Company). They wanted representation. Our founding fathers were shills to corporate interests just as we are.
Catamount1980 February 21st
Old bag of …
Old bag of wind! He could have bitched about this for 2 minutes…why do these people drag this out.
They complain about conservatives creating scare tactics…what’s this?
It’s clear they are not happy with companies being able to compete with SEIU, Teamsters, etc to compete with company contributions! What HAS this man done over the past 20 years anyway? Are there no better people in Vermont than this Gomer?
He needs to retire to the grandpa chair with his jug!
Weasler455 February 21st
Also, he has a …
Also, he has a little of that glassy-eyed
look that drunks get, he’s slightly red in
the face, and he’s staggering a bit from
time to time.
What a slimebucket.
Weasler455 February 21st
He IS drunk. The …
He IS drunk. The dead give-aways are the
following:
2:52 “…they’ve run ROUGHSHOD…”
3:50 “…substituted their own PREFERENCES…”
11:00 “…issues thought to be long settled…”
The confused pauses around 10:45
and 13:00.
The way he’s overemphasizing things at
13:20, and goofs up “…I did not come…”.
Weasler455 February 21st
Don’t like it here? …
Don’t like it here? Move to Holland.
We are not going ANYWHERE.
Weasler455 February 21st
Your spelling …
Your spelling ability is also a pity.
maxine2win February 21st
@diapasonify
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@diapasonify
source?
yakyakyak69 February 21st
The Radical …
The Radical Progressive Left has their panties in a knot because THEIR corporate media just LOST its monopoly on political speech.
Finally ALL corporations (not just MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, PBS, ABC, NBC) have equal access to air time!
As long as the advertising is correct and not a lie, then we can NEVER have too much information!
BTW, there are all kinds of laws on the books to prevent Defamation which is any wrongful injury to the reputation of a person or entity.
olgrunt1 February 21st
When dems. and low …
When dems. and low lives of this country ignore laws such as the logan act, and try to allow queers to serve in the millitary I hope they trump every time you bough
godownwithit223 February 21st
I lovs grabbing a …
I lovs grabbing a man’s dick… especially strangers!
TookYerJob1 February 21st
the fringers have …
the fringers have been talking about this coming corporate dark age for bloody years
how stupid are you all starting to feel
ThePontifix February 21st
I have chunks of …
I have chunks of jerks like him in my stool. Fights for activist like Sotomayor, and then whines like a when he’s owned by a Supreme Court which understands the law. There is on the books a law prohibiting foreign corporations from buying our elections; Obonehead the ass-chimp promised to take Federal Matching Funds [limiting how much he could spend], then broke his promise to suck up all the Soros (Greek) million$ he could get his Chicago bone-thug mits on!). FUBO
mrjeronimo February 21st
Drunk Whore….
Drunk Whore….
DownriverPatriot February 21st
So only ‘the people …
So only ‘the people’ should be allowed to contribute to campaigns, now that The One has been annointed?
Somebody please remind me how much money SEIU and George Soros-funded groups donated to the cause…
NoCensorshipYT February 21st
GOT DRUNK?
GOT DRUNK?
eatmelibs February 21st
For clarification …
For clarification for you Libs. Obama ‘s campaign, during his run for office, DISABLED the campaign’s “TRACK BACK” feature on their website so you could not track contributions and where they came from. Contributions could be made through pre-paid credit cards “from around the globe”. The campaign was never disapplened because his party (Dems) blocked replacements to the overseeing Federal Election Commision and they couldn’t act at the time.Transparency my *SS!! Conservative Ascendancy, Yes!
eatmelibs February 21st
By the way, senator …
By the way, senator, where was your hero’s,Barry, contributions coming from?…As I recall, he got alot of his contributions via the internet….can we track where his money’s came from to help him get elected?…ah, no, we can’t do that. I laugh at this, and am very pleased to see you dems all upset. (UNION NO)
eatmelibs February 21st
Ahhh…you’re upset …
Ahhh…you’re upset, Leeky Leahy.Corporations,inwhich you help drive out of our country with Huge Corporate Taxes, now have the ability to influence elections for their self interests…Damn,that sucks doesn’t?..Hey, how about Unions dumping money into the Democrat party, election after election! Do the union members have a say of which party they wish to contribute with their “Taken” dues? NO! they don’t! So S*REW YOU! By the way, Americans work for these “Corporations”, *sshole!
avradaous February 21st
Corporation, n. An …
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
- Ambrose Bierce
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