FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Increasing corporate freedom

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: January 21, 2010 11:44:59 AM EST
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
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> Today's Supreme Court decision clearly increases the role that money can play 
> in our electoral (and therefore political) processes. The typical 5/4 
> decision. Adam Liptak's lead paragraph
> 
>>      WASHINGTON — Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling 
>> two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 
>> that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in 
>> candidate elections.
> 
> Change comes fast!
> 
>       http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html?src=twr
> 
> Bob