BREAKING: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen just introduced a Constitutional amendment to OVERTURN Citizens United. That’s right—corporations might finally stop masquerading as people with unlimited checkbooks. #EndCitizensUnited #MoneyOutOfPolitics #CampaignFinanceReform #DemocracyNotForSale - ThreadSky

eliminatethegop.bsky.social • 6 days ago

BREAKING: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen just introduced a Constitutional amendment to OVERTURN Citizens United. That’s right—corporations might finally stop masquerading as people with unlimited checkbooks.

#EndCitizensUnited #MoneyOutOfPolitics #CampaignFinanceReform #DemocracyNotForSale

Comments

greedandenvy.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is such a worthy cause at what seems like an impossible time. It is going to be challenging to put all this $$$ back in the box. I have no faith in the Supremes to help us either.

bigjobsbigjobs.bsky.social•6 days ago

Chuck Schumer will put an end to this.

golfsniffer420.bsky.social•6 days ago

How are corporations people?

Can’t serve on a jury!
Can’t be drafted!
Can’t be jailed!

cervantes3.bsky.social•4 days ago

About goddamn time. End Citizens United!

xailai.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah they brought this forward now cause they know it won't pass with the current congress and are doing this for brownie points in messaging. If they were serious they would've done this in the first half of Biden's term or Obama's.

jovial-jovian.bsky.social•5 days ago

Nice gesture, won't pass.

wtfdonald.bsky.social•5 days ago

Performative nonsense that will never see the sun.

holston.bsky.social•6 days ago

I so support this.

catlady49ers.bsky.social•5 days ago

This will never pass with our current Congress!

donise.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh bravo. Just exactly the energy needed to stop this abject fuckery🙄 while MAGA controls both chambers of Congress, the Justice Department and the Supreme Court. I can’t take any of you seriously.

tiadee1031.bsky.social•5 days ago

While this won't pass.....it does go on record and can be brought back in the future. Just like writing articles of impeachment....it likely won't go anywhere but it is recorded into history

peoriajack.bsky.social•4 days ago

Fucking finally

am-mccarthy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Does this not just seem like a waste of time in this political moment?
And Jeanne has voted to confirm a significant number of the fascists.

greedandenvy.bsky.social•5 days ago

The theater is alive and well in the Democratic party! 🤦🏻‍♀️

darkphil.bsky.social•6 days ago

This would be wonderful had it a chance to pass

bandedhawk.bsky.social•5 days ago

Masquerading as really craven citizens.

pamballard3.bsky.social•5 days ago

That would be great, but the MAGATS would not allow that, they would have to work for the money, instead of the rich just giving it to them.

drrobert25.bsky.social•5 days ago

As usual, and tragically, there's almost zero chance that moves anywhere in this environment and with both sides deeply involved in the payola and grift

frdavidaevans.bsky.social•5 days ago

Serious question: Why do we keep trying to do unserious things? This is never going to actually happen.

Next time we have the house, the senate, and the WH, maybe we could introduce a 300% Federal Excise Tax on all federal campaign advertising that doesn’t come from an official campaign committee?

nicole-yvonne.bsky.social•5 days ago

Good now all of the republicans who claim to support the working class will have to put on record if they support corporations buying our government right at a time when a lot of republicans are waking up to what their party really is and who they work for

youvotedforthis2.bsky.social•5 days ago

They could stop running for reelection the day after the last election and start working for the people they represent.

We see a ton of "ambulance chaser" commercials from the Mobile AL tv stations. But, we always hope to see them again because that means election season is over!

isonope.bsky.social•5 days ago

It will never fly, even amongst Dems….

dpoore.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes yes yes

bhagwancosmiclight.bsky.social•6 days ago

The day nine terrorist politicians dressed in black robes, pretending to be constitutional experts decided corporations were people, and cash is free expression, was the day the corporate mafia was born!
Remove the word RACE in all American documents and end institutional racism . Can you do that?

homie1.bsky.social•6 days ago

First step to undo what caused us to be here

k9hikesaz.bsky.social•6 days ago

DOA it’ll never pass but it’ll make her constituents happy & keep her in office.

suewhitcomb.bsky.social•5 days ago

She’s already announced she’s retiring.

youvotedforthis2.bsky.social•5 days ago

If that can somehow get passed, the price of almost every product should go down. So, the felon president should support it.

slashmacleod.bsky.social•5 days ago

Only 34 congress members signed onto a letter demanding justice for college students disappeared by the regime. This shit is going nowhere until they're all genuinely afraid of the alternative.

mtnlove789.bsky.social•5 days ago

Long overdue! Roberts' Court is corrupt as Hell.

suewhitcomb.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s a nice message — but do you know what it takes to pass a Constitution Amendment? Look at the ERA…

jnuke62.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh, I’d also like to take makeup and bad hair out of politics.

jnuke62.bsky.social•5 days ago

Citizens United turbocharged the decay of our democracy. My fantasy amendment would also do away with PACs / lobbyists, limit active campaigning to 3 months, and require all candidates / potential appointees for any fed’l office to release their unredacted tax filings for the prior six years.

roylstonranch.bsky.social•6 days ago

I LOVE THIS NEWS

shawnw71.bsky.social•5 days ago

That egregious ruling needs to be incinerated. No more money in politics. No political parties and people run on their own merit. You know what- if the tribalism of political parties is eliminated I’d be willing to bet that we would get better representation nationwide and the maggots would be done.