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In reply to the discussion: Ted Cruz Warns That Dems Are Moving To 'Repeal' The First Amendment [View all]Distant Quasar
(142 posts)18. Yeah, as soon as you concede that money = speech, you've lost the argument
The point is that money isn't speech, never has been speech, and no amount of legal sophistry will make it so.
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A Harvard law grad able to dumb himself down to the level of the idiots is a gift.
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#9
Yeah, as soon as you concede that money = speech, you've lost the argument
Distant Quasar
May 2014
#18
Should it be possible to ban a book from being published during election season
Nye Bevan
May 2014
#51
The corollary to your statement is that people with money should have more influence in govt.
baldguy
May 2014
#78
That may have been the case, but it certainly hasn't been the ideal or the objective.
baldguy
May 2014
#80
Well, no matter what you say, current jurisprudence is that money equals speech.
Hosnon
May 2014
#19
It's a type of public financing that enhances the influence of small donors
Distant Quasar
May 2014
#50
NOT when SCOTUS is stacked with ultra conservative judges 5 to 4. Of course not.
YOHABLO
May 2014
#61
That is hilarious - as the 2nd amendment has always been the interest of the conservatives - the
jwirr
May 2014
#22
No, we only want to deny speech to pieces of paper. Go back to making more paper dollies, you idjit!
freshwest
May 2014
#27
this is the same level of ignorance as the person who told me that michelle obama passed a law
niyad
May 2014
#46
The technique: say the biggest lie that strikes the biggest fear in your audience.
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2014
#31
Yes that is exactly what he is. And the gullible will kill for him if he tells them they should...
freshwest
Jul 2014
#87
It's a dirty trick to equate campaign spending with 1st Amendment rights.
livingonearth
May 2014
#53
I'd say the Koch brothers, but I think it's really the other way around. Just sayin'
freshwest
Jul 2014
#89
Soon as Obama wins his third term, he plans to repeal the First and Second Amenements.
NBachers
May 2014
#66
Comrade, I've already voted for it! Did you get your double secret ballot yet?
freshwest
Jul 2014
#90
Reinstating meaningful campaign finance laws shouldn't be approached by tinkering
struggle4progress
May 2014
#68
False. Proponents at Move to Amend want to eliminate corporate personhood, not the First.
freshwest
Jul 2014
#88