There are maybe 100 more pressing things for the United States than overturning Citizens United. It's important, but there are many more important things. (Ending gerrymandering nationally would be 100x as important, to start.)
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I’d probably take bribery reversals over electioneering reversals even in the very narrow category of “insane ‘it’s okay if you’re rich’ Supreme Court decisions”
sep 3, 2025, 1:46 am • 2 0 • view
All for ending gerrymandering because the only way Republican cultists would allow it to happen is by throwing them out of power.
sep 3, 2025, 1:46 am • 0 0 • view
Shelby County was substantially more harmful.
sep 3, 2025, 1:45 am • 4 0 • view
Citizens united undergirds all the problems. Citizens united facilitates oligarchy.
sep 3, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
No, not really.
sep 3, 2025, 5:33 am • 0 0 • view
Stripping Corporations of Rights might be the single most important Human Rights struggle we face
sep 3, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
Anti-redistricting ads funded by dark money in CA already. And Ds don’t have individual billionaires dropping $240M on campaigns. How do you expect to make those more pressing changes fighting against that? SCOTUS expansion/reform & an end to Citizens United can pave the way to healthy democracy.
sep 3, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
My hot take: Shelby County has been much more damaging to American democracy than Citizens United. Hot take #2: Nobody who's followed John Roberts's career should be surprised by this. He's been on a one-man crusade to destroy the Voting Rights Act since the 1980s.
sep 3, 2025, 2:18 am • 2 1 • view
I don't get it. Gerrymandering is just as much of a both sides, race to the bottom issue. And far more entrenched, solutions are harder than scotus walking back the relatively recent Citizens United case.
sep 3, 2025, 3:27 am • 0 0 • view
1) gerrymandering is not a both sides issue 2) gerrymandering very directly undermines democracy by entrenching partisan splits, while money in politics still lets people vote 3) banning partisan gerrymandering was before the court even more recently than United
sep 3, 2025, 9:31 am • 1 0 • view
Need a new VRA also.
sep 3, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view