Lying About the Citizens United Case
Jim Babka on Feb 1st 2010
CREDO Action sent out an alert, echoing media talking points I’ve heard from many mainstream media sources, regarding last week’s Citizens United campaign finance decision…
We deserve a country where our elected officials are not bought and paid for by Big Business. But last week’s Supreme Court decision in the case Citizens United vs. FEC overturned over a century of precedent and opened the floodgates for unlimited amounts of corporate money to flow into our political system.
That paragraph is profuse prevarication. But I’ll only focus on one lie in this piece.
FACT: The Citizens United decision (CU) overturned only one case, plus the most heinous part of another.
Congressman Alan Grayson takes the lie further and makes it more explicit.
By gutting the 100-year-old Tillman Act ban on corporate contributions, the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door to political bribery and corruption on the largest scale imaginable.
The Tillman Act wasn’t even considered in this case. It remains in effect. Corporations still can’t make direct contributions to candidates.
However, corporations used to be able, even under the Tillman Act, Continue Reading »
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