Judge may reconsider ruling on corporate donations ban
Free Speech Monday, June 6th, 2011
By Jordy Yager, The Hill
A federal judge this week may reconsider his ruling that the ban on corporations giving money directly to political candidates is unconstitutional.
Judge James Cacheris of the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Virginia delivered a shocking ruling in a criminal case on May 27 stating that if corporations are entitled to the same freedom of speech rights as individuals — as was recently ruled by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case — then corporations should have the same rights as individuals when donating money to political campaigns.
Cacheris used the ruling to dismiss a charge against two Virginia men who were accused of illegally donating money to Hillary Clinton’s Senate and presidential campaigns.
But this week the prosecution team, citing its own failure to raise the Supreme Court’s decision in the 2003 Federal Election Commission v. Beaumont case that upheld the federal ban on corporations donating directly to political campaigns, asked the court to reconsider its decision.
“Although the government did not cite Beaumont, and regrets its omission, the defendants have nevertheless previously conceded that the relevant Supreme Court precedents include Beaumont,” said federal prosecutors in a motion to reconsider.
Cacheris allowed the motion and on Friday agreed to decide by early next week whether he would reconsider his ruling.
To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/164773-judge-to-reconsider-ruling-on-corporate-donations-ban
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It has been Clear to ME, since the Citizens United Decision was handed down, and especially since: Justice Allito’s illustrative Rebuttal of the Erroneous O’bama presumption: that allthough CORPORATE Personages; may have: “Equal to Private Rights,” to CONTRIBUTE to Political campaigns, those: mere Fictional Entity Rights, “could and should”: IN “NO” WAY, be pre-sumed: to superdeed those, of Private individuals and Further: that mere incorporate Persons “MUST,” also endure: at very LEAST, the very SAME: “LIMITATIONS,”
to Contributions, that that are applied to: PRIVATE Individuals to insure: “NO SPECIAL INFLUENCE,” on the Electoral Process.
Corporations MUST be CLOSELY MONITORED, to Preclude: “UNDUE INFLUENCE,” perverion or subversion, of said Process, In the SPECIFIC INTEREST to the EXpress INTEREST of the WILL, of WE THE PEOPLE, from whence ALL POWER to the Representatives FLOWS!
If you tax a corporation like a person then they have a right to contribute to their representative. taxation without representation is unconstitutional. Do not tax businesses and give all the profits to the owners(stockholders) then tax them. Then the business / cooperation would not have the constitutional right for representation through the political contributions.