Get Ready for Citizens United 2.0

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43957032

Is it possible for American democracy to be further degraded by the influence of billionaires? Thanks to champion of the working class J. D. Vance and his right-wing friends, including “dark money kingpin” Leonard Leo, we may soon find out.

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You mean it gets worse‽

/of course it can get worse

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I just hope I can last long enough to get my daughter out of this new hell hole.

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Best of luck, and stay frosty

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"dark money kingpin" Leonard Leo

Leonard Leo

I can definitely see why he's ended up on the dark side.

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Leo's got too many fingernails, someone should fix that

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The timing of the SCOTUS case is no coincidence. […] Missing three members due to two resignations and one controversial firing, it lacks quorum. Thus it is unable to appear in court, make statements, or otherwise defend itself and its remaining bedrock regulations. From the standpoint of actors whose main interest is kneecapping the commission, now is the perfect time to strike.

sigh.

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The idea of SCOTUS being any kind of impartial arbiter of justice has been made into a complete joke because of bullshit like this and too many other incidents for me to count. Whenever we get the corrupt bastards off that court they are going to have to overturn so much garbage from the past 20 years or so.

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