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Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Limits on Federal Campaign Contributions - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/us/politics/supreme-court-ruling-on-campaign-contributions.html
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for four justices in the controlling opinion, said the First Amendment required striking down the limits. “There is no right in our democracy more basic,” he wrote, “than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.”
Dissenting from the bench, Justice Stephen G. Breyer called the decision a blow to the First Amendment and American democracy. “If the court in Citizens United opened a door,” he said, “today’s decision may well open a floodgate.”
#corruption_légale #Etats_unis
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  The Supreme Court Just Gutted Another Campaign Finance Law. Here’s What Happened. | Mother Jones
  ▻http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/supreme-court-mccutcheon-citizens-united
  How’d this happen? In the 2012 election cycle, a wealthy Alabama businessman named Shaun McCutcheon tried to make donations in the amount of $1,776 to 27 right-leaning congressional candidates. Not so fast, replied the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the nation’s campaign finance watchdog.
  Not only does the FEC cap the amount of money a donor can give to, say, Joe Schmo for Congress ($2,600 per election in 2013-14) or the Democratic National Committee ($5,000), the FEC also puts a ceiling on the number of within-the-limit donations a donor can make in a single election cycle. In the 2012 cycle, the aggregate limit for a donor like McCutcheon was $117,000 in donations to campaigns, PACs, and party committees. (To be clear, the PACs in this instance are of the traditional variety, the ones that have been around since the 1940s, not the super-PACs ushered in after the 2010 Citizens United decision.)
  McCutcheon didn’t like the FEC telling him he could give $1,776 to 26 congressional candidates but not 27. (That would’ve exceeded the aggregate limit for candidate donations, which at that time was $46,200.) So he sued the FEC, and the Republican National Committee later joined his case as a coplaintiff.
  
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  La Cour suprême ouvre les vannes du financement électoral | Chantal VALERY | États-Unis
  ▻http://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/201404/02/01-4753777-la-cour-supreme-ouvre-les-vannes-du-financement-electoral.php
  Dans une décision immédiatement saluée par les républicains, mais qui a « déçu » la Maison-Blanche, la plus haute juridiction du pays a jugé « invalides » les limites imposées pour les dons d’un particulier, en vertu du Premier Amendement à la Constitution américaine qui protège, selon elle, la liberté d’un individu « à participer au processus électoral ».
  
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  Supreme Court Further Empowers Wealthy Political Donors - Inter Press Service
  ►http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/04/supreme-court-empowers-wealthy-political-donors
  Stein Ringen, an emeritus professor at Oxford University, compared the current U.S. system to that of ancient Athens where, he noted, “democracy disintegrated when the rich grew super-rich, refused to play by the rules and undermined the established system of government.”
  
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  Democracy Later (WarisaLie) sur Twitter
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  L’article (partiel) d’IPS en français ▻http://www.ipsinternational.org/fr/_note.asp?idnews=7920
  
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  We have returned to the gilded age of the late 19th century, when the lackeys of robber barons placed sacks of money on the desks of pliant legislators. If this is not #corruption, what is?
  ▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/06/mccutcheon-conservative-supreme-court-next-occupy
  
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  Twitter / causes : Heh. Thx to PriceofOil and ...
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Supreme Court may need to decide how private a cellphone is - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-may-need-to-decide-how-private-a-cellphone-is/2013/08/04/e341dc60-fae1-11e2-a369-d1954abcb7e3_story.html?wprss=rss_politics
Vers une légalisation des écoutes téléphoniques ?
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. didn’t hesitate last fall when a questioner asked him about the biggest constitutional challenge the Supreme Court faced.
Roberts told the audience at Rice University in Houston that the court must identify “the fundamental principle underlying what constitutional protection is and apply it to new issues and new technology. I think that is going to be the real challenge for the next 50 years.”
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