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Blame SCOTUS — The Super Rich Flood Elections With Billions In Contributions
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2024 Elections Campaign Finance Reform Citizens United Supreme Courtby Jackie HowellIn 1976, the Supreme Court ruled in Buckley v. Valeo that “contribution ceilings were a necessary legislative concomitant to deal with the reality or appearance of corruption inherent in a system permitting unlimited financial contributions.” [emphasis added] Thus, the Court upheld the limits on campaign contributions to candidates enacted in response to the Watergate scandals. In 2002, Congress banned […]
Donald Trump And His Cult Of Liars
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |JD Vance TrumpWatchby Jackie Howell“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1785 It’s no […]
JD Vance Shows His True Colors
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2020 Election Immunity Jan. 6 JD Vance TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellWhen Senator J.D. Vance was asked during Tuesday’s Vice Presidential debate if former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he refused to answer. Vance doubled down suggesting the presidential transition was peaceful. Peaceful? Vance has to know that Trump incited that day’s violent attack, urging his followers to go to the Capitol and telling them, […]
Trump’s Election Deniers In Action
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2024 Elections Election Deniers TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellFor the past four years, former President Donald Trump has been building a cult of election deniers who believe his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. They don’t care that no one has ever presented a shred of credible evidence to support Trump’s blatantly bogus claim. Notwithstanding the lack of […]