The Supreme Court Decision Allowing Large Corporations to Run Their Own Political Ads

Since 2002, federal elections in the United States have been regulated by federal law based on the Second Section Reform Act (BCRA). This is often called McCain - fine gold. According to the law, companies and trade unions can not use the treasury for the purpose of advertising specific candidates or promoting their own campaign advertisements (Francia, 16). They are only allowed to express their interests through a strictly regulated political action committee. However, in the 2010 parliamentary election, the US Supreme Court partially revoked the law.

The Civic Federation's decision brought a green light to companies (including certain types of nonprofit companies) that spend money on political advertisements that explicitly demand elections or defeat Federal candidates. The US Supreme Court ruled in 2007, Wisconsin Rights Rights versus FEC allowed companies, including certain types of nonprofit organizations, to spend money on problem advertisements during the election period before the election . Candidate candidate The two-party party reform bill of 2002 banned both companies' political expenditure. Currently these limits are overwhelmed and politically active nonprofit organizations use more money than ever to directly affect the elections.

In this election season, the larger national theme is the decision of the Supreme Court against the joint appeal of the citizens against the Federal Election Commission, and if the company is "television broadcasting" the enterprise is infinite in political communications such as " You can use the amount. This decision effectively exacerbated the Cold War between the Democratic supporters' lobbyists and Republican - supported lobbyists. Companies and lobbyists should not influence our politics, their existence will push politicians away from the public they should represent, the closer they are to the benefits of corruption and benefits.

In 2010, the Supreme Court supported conservative PAC Citizens United, the first amendment considers political expenditure "freedom of speech", gives the company authority to pay the political advertisement, gives candidates It was explicitly promoted to those who adopted the person. . In 2012, Murray Energy, Koch Industries, AGS Software, and Westgate Resorts made public to employees to vote for Mitt Romney. This particular activity is not so, it is like a vague strategy seen in the past. "My vote" is like a voter ballot organized by lobbyists of the National Mining Association. However, they want it in parallel with making it a citizen's right! Also list candidates (Republicans and conservative Democrats) nominated on that information website. It has been used since 2004, but recently I started using the word "Keep American Mining Great".