{"id":14976,"date":"2010-12-15T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T19:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14976"},"modified":"2010-12-15T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T19:17:33","slug":"democracy-21-president-fred-wertheimer-courts-corruption-of-election-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14976","title":{"rendered":"Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer: Court&#8217;s corruption of election law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fred Wertheimer<br \/>\nWednesday, December 15, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With its disastrous Citizens United decision in January, the Supreme Court, its eyes wide shut, opened a Pandora&#8217;s box.<\/p>\n<p>The five justices who struck down the ban on corporate expenditures in federal elections had no idea what they were unleashing on our democracy; no understanding of the consequences of their radical change to campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n<p>They apparently decided they could do better than Congress at writing these laws. But they were dead wrong. They proceeded to &#8220;legislate&#8221; from the bench &#8211; a practice frowned upon by these same five justices.<\/p>\n<p>Their decision was based on a series of fundamental mistakes. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracy21.org\/index.asp?Type=B_PR&#038;SEC={91FCB139-CC82-4DDD-AE4E-3A81E6427C7F}&#038;DE={4051E799-A124-4B6C-A5E9-0DAF1E411A86}\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Court&#8217;s corruption of election law&#8221; by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fred Wertheimer Wednesday, December 15, 2010 With its disastrous Citizens United decision in January, the Supreme Court, its eyes wide shut, opened a Pandora&#8217;s box. The five justices who struck down the ban on corporate expenditures in federal elections &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14976\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3Ty","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14980,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14976\/revisions\/14980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}