Forum Post: Fifty Activist Groups Call for Congressional Hearings on Citizens United
Posted 12 years ago on Feb. 15, 2012, 4:38 p.m. EST by GirlFriday
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Fifty organizations presented letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on Tuesday requesting hearings this year on the need to amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates for unlimited independent campaign spending and gave rise to the infamous Super PAC.
So far in the 112th Congress, lawmakers have introduced 13 constitutional amendment resolutions of varying scope, and dozens more have been introduced in state legislatures. Hearings in the Judiciary Committees would be the next step in moving Congress toward proposing an amendment.
Hold your heads up! Looks like progress to me!!!
This is excellent, GirlFriday, and it's great to have you back.
Thanks.
Yes!!!!!
Step one will be taken!!!
Lobby reform next, anyone?
Count me in.
Hey there GF! Welcome back! There was a whole thread dedicated to you when you vanished for a spell.
Thanks. :D
Get the dang money out...............From dog catcher to president!!!!
I hope you had a productive hiatus...................The trolls have been going nutz without you................:)
It was productive. I am going to be really busy for a quick minute so it will be hit and miss.
Welcome back, GirlFriday. We missed you.
please, just one rant for me:) what can i say to get that? i think george bush was the best president we'll ever have, he did so many wonderful things for this country that i am in tears. he will be missed and there's no way we can pay back, save for a debt of gratitude!
What the fuck is happening?
It is progress, yet as you note, the amendments proposed vary in scope and I have yet to see one introduced in congress which would effectively overturn Citizens United. The actual language of an amendment matters a great deal. We must be vigilant to make sure we don't support an amendment which would not really do the job.
Personally, I think it is highly unlikely that congress will pass any meaningful amendment until they see a flood of states calling for a constitutional convention. I don't think that a single state has done so yet.
This post, and some of the comments thereto point out the weaknesses of the Sanders Amendment.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/bernie-sanders-amendment-would-not-overturn-citize/
I agree with you. They do vary in scope. Let me go have a look at this thread.
Good post GF, welcome back. This is a definite common cause issue.
Thanks. :D
Good!
you really should put things in quotes when they are not your words (i.e. this whole blog).
good luck constitutional amendments are very difficult to do
They are. However, it is the pulse.
An amendment or legislation. This is about recourse. Let us try all available avenues. Yeah?
How much does MSNBC pay you to carry water for them? How many times in the past year has Obama demonized Super PACs and the 2010 Supreme Court ruling, only to be hypocritical and begin taking from his own Super PAC just last week? You are truly a foolish little tunkin'. Poor little sister Friday
I don't watch MSNBC, sweetie pie. Try again, fucktwit.
ohhh, poor little tunkin' did I hurt your feewings? You're right about one thing, I am a sweetie pie ;-)
No, you didn't hurt my feelings. :D
Well that uncle tom you and ZenPup love so much sure made no bones about stepping up and exploiting it just like he has the rest of the united states.