The Nation: Donna Edwards' No Corporate Monopoly of Elections Amendment

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Donna Edwards' No Corporate Monopoly of Elections Amendment
posted by John Nichols on 02/03/2010 @ 07:40am


Maryland Congresswoman Donna Edwards turned to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis for guidance in framing the Constitutional amendment she proposed Tuesday as the right and necessary response to the decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and a high court majority to abandon law and precedent with the purpose of permitting corporations to dominate the political discourse.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both," said Brandeis, the lion of law whose defenses of freedom of speech and the right to privacy renewed and extended the American experiment in the 20th century.

Brandeis knew that giving corporations monopoly power over our economic life or our politics would be deadly to democracy.

Unfortunately, that truth is lost on the current Supreme Court's activist majority.

Edwards is relying on Brandeis as an intellectual and legal touchstone as she launches the boldest congressional response yet to last month's Supreme Court decision in the case of Citizens United v. FEC. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/525477/donna_edwards_no_corporate_monopoly_of_elections_amendment

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1. Donna is amazing

Makes me proud to be a Maryland Dem.