Re:Free speech is last century. Today’s students want the ‘r...
by hga on Saturday December 27, 2014 @07:36AM
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Citizens United was primarily about allowing leveraged discussions of such topics in the 1-2 months before Federal primary and general elections. A ban on core political speech, and since the primary season is so long, and the national conventions are just a bit more than 2 months prior to general elections....
Which is exactly why the incumbent establishment was incandescently upset that this decision stuck down part of the bipartisan McCain (Republican)-Feingold (Democrat) law.
Key there is leveraged. That takes money and organization. Citizens United was about suppressing the distribution of a film during the 2008 Democratic primary season (as clarified during the oral arguments, this extended to books). The law went so far as to prevent sending non-partisan voter's guides such as the NRA's 60 days prior to general election; "low information voters" would not seem to be viewed as a great problem by our betters.
WTF? Can we discuss capacities of out dear leader and our allmighty twoparty at least?