{"id":191259,"date":"2009-09-09T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/09\/this-looks-bad\/"},"modified":"2009-09-09T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:07:00","slug":"this-looks-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/09\/this-looks-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"This Looks Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=112642564\">Supreme Court will be looking at overturning the bans on corporate campaign contributions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The last time this hit, it was 6-3 supporting the bans, but 2 of those 6 votes are now Roberts and Alito, whose jurisprudence is <del>politically motivated hypocrisy<\/del> rather results oriented, which makes it a 5-4 decision which will overturn the most basic campaign finance regulations.<\/p>\n<p>So much for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stare_decisis\">stare decisis<\/a>.  They explicitly lied to congress during their confirmation hearings, but you won&#8217;t be able to get a conviction.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just waiting for the first case where a Chinese owned firm uses funds to aid a political campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Supreme Court will be looking at overturning the bans on corporate campaign contributions. The last time this hit, it was 6-3 supporting the bans, but 2 of those 6 votes are now Roberts and Alito, whose jurisprudence is politically motivated hypocrisy rather results oriented, which makes it a 5-4 decision which will overturn &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,1051,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-hypocrisy","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191259"}],"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=191259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}