{"id":191235,"date":"2009-09-10T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/10\/it-looks-like-campaign-finance-limits-are-dead\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T00:44:00","slug":"it-looks-like-campaign-finance-limits-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/10\/it-looks-like-campaign-finance-limits-are-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"It Looks Like Campaign Finance Limits Are Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least, that is my take on reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2227798\/\">Dahlia Lithwick&#8217;s observations in court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We will be seeing corporate sponsored electioneering in 2010, but I expect the 5-4 decision to add a twist which will allow labor unions, which are outspent under today&#8217;s rules, to continue to remain in their straight jacket.<\/p>\n<p>We have some profoundly deceitful and venal men on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>This will likely be the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> most disgraceful decision in the past 9 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, that is my take on reading Dahlia Lithwick&#8217;s observations in court. We will be seeing corporate sponsored electioneering in 2010, but I expect the 5-4 decision to add a twist which will allow labor unions, which are outspent under today&#8217;s rules, to continue to remain in their straight jacket. We have some profoundly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,971,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-civil-rights","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}