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John McCain Repeats Charges Against Citizens United

LPH

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Repeating and emphasizing earlier statements, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday's Meet the Press once again denounced the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision for unleashing the flood of money now "washing over politics." Meanwhile he has endorsed Mitt Romney, a politician with two large super-PACs. Is that ironic?

We can appreciate Mr. McCain's position, though. He has been very consistent on campaign financing. In fact, he supported the 2002 campaign finance law torn apart by the Courts. That court decision led to the creation of Super-PACs.
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Robert Heiny

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Ironic, maybe. But the Supreme Court opinion seems consistent with the principle of free speech, as long as using money is accepted as speech, which I don't understand. Why, exactly, is money treated as speech?
 

LPH

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Freedom and equity are not considered the same. Freedom of speech would be speech without restrictions. Equity, on the other hand, would assume everyone has enough money to speak freely. We are not all equal.

This would be an interesting legal question - whether the U.S. laws must meet the condition of equity.
 
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