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Bo102010 | 14 years ago

Likewise. I side with the ACLU on Citizens United - i.e. that the Supreme Court decided it correctly.

You can rationally be displeased what you expect the outcome of the case to be (e.g. increased ability for corporate financing of election campaigns), but I don't think there's a coherent defense of the sections of BCRA that the court struck down.

ETA: The government argued that BCRA would allow them to ban, for example, a 500 page book that contained a single sentence endorsing a candidate (http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/29/will-elena-kagan-allow...). If you think SOPA is heavy-handed, just think what BCRA could have led to.

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dantheman|14 years ago

Hell it allowed the government to block the release of an independently produced film, by the group Citizens United. It's crazy that anyone could think that's ok.