re: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse masterclass on dark money

I hope you're being facetious?

Can someone change to read money instead of humor.

Whitehouse is a stupid worthless frick.

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Lemme guess, you're an "originalist."

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what does that have to do with precedent?

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Also, do you have a better idea on how to get money out of politics

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certainly not by limiting speech. you do realized Citizens United was centered around a movie being played on cable television, right? it wasn't even over FCC-regulated airwaves, it was on unregulated CABLE. you think the government should have the ability to make it illegal for a cable channel to play a movie?

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or are you actually ignorant enough to buy the "drain the swamp" schtick?

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if you want to drain the swamp, remove power from the swamp

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You're into banning books, huh comrade?

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Please show your work here.

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Also, do you have a better idea on how to get money out of politics

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Yes. Slash the ever loving frick out of government spending.

Amazing how you guys think an institution that shells out TRILLIONS of dollars ever year, won't have cronies lining up around the block, no matter what the laws, to get those sweet government contracts.

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Hold on while I get you the exact transcript of the lawyers admitting that books could be banned under the statue that was being challenged.

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yeah i mean if a cable network could be censored, then there is no reason why a publishing company would be automatically exempt

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To this, the Deputy Solicitor General was backed against the wall, and did not retreat from his earlier pro-government regulatory position. "[A] corporation could be barred from using its general treasury funds to publish the book and could be required to … raise funds to publish the book using its PAC" with contribution limited by campaign finance law, Stewart insisted.

Then the Chief Justice chimed in, asking whether that would be true if the book contained only "one use of the candidate’s name"?

"That’s correct," Stewart responded a few interchanges later, further explaining, "Yes, [the government’s] position would be that [any] corporation could be required to use PAC funds rather than general treasury funds."

"And if they didn’t, you could ban it?" the Chief Justice made crystal clear.

"If they didn’t, we could prohibit the publication of the book," Stewart agreed.

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Again, how did you not know this? I mean, even if you watched Cruz's statements, RIGHT AFTER Sheldon's statements, you would have been informed about it.

How can you think that you are informed when you don't even attempt to dig into the "other side" of views you currently have?

I haven't watched CNN since they helped lead us into the invasion of Iraq.

Your assumption definitely paints you as someone that watches 24 hour news.