SCOTUS Strikes Down Overall Limits On Political Donations

[kgoerz]

The next step will be allowing political donations from other countries. The one judges justification was along the lines of, it's just the way the system works and if you don't like it fight for change. Might get what he is asking for.

[Trapper John]

Originally Posted by kgoerz

The next step will be allowing political donations from other countries. The one judges justification was along the lines of, it's just the way the system works and if you don't like it fight for change. Might get what he is asking for.

I'm with you on that one Bro.

[Snaquebite]

From another forum:

Gun Owners of America states that all gun owners won a huge victory before the US Supreme Court last week. The McCutcheon decision was a victory bc SCOTUS struck down Congress' contribution limits a person can give to a candidate.

This means that gun owners can support pro-2nd amendment candidates without limitation financially.

As Justice John Roberts on page 3 of the McCutcheon decision stated which came from the GOA amicus brief. "And those who govern should be the last people to help decide who should govern".


In addition, Idaho became the latest state to nullify Obama's gun control agenda. The new law as passed by 12 other states as well, bars Idaho officials from enforcing federal gun control laws and the law will penalize officers who give such orders. Alaska and Kansas passed their own nullification bills last year.

Anti-gun former Mayor of NYC, Michael Bloomberg has come up empty in New Hampshire as well. He is spending millions of his own money all over the country to try and get states to expand background checks t prevent more and more law abiding citizens from owning guns.

In New Hampshire, Senate Bill 244 was introduced with this end in mind by an anti-gun democrat. This ban could have banned police and firemen with PTS or seniors with Alzheimers from owning guns, many of whom have large and valuable gun collections they would like to pass onto their children.

GOA worked with the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition to get the onerous provisions stripped out of the bill. After a long hard battle, the New Hampshire State Senate stripped out those provisions and every word about gun control.

Finally, the 80 year old man (Otis McDonald) who brought down Chicago's gun control ban in the US S. Court case of McDonald vs. Chicago in 2010 died April 4, 2014 after a long illness. He was a gracious Christian gentleman who loved his family and wanted nothing more than to keep them safe.

[Richard]

So, if one reviews the history of American politics and political spending, have things really changed as much as we'd like to believe over the last two centuries, or are they continuing along pretty much as they always have in regards to the purchasing of access and the forming of public opinion?

Richard