"Senate Democrats Plot Vote To Overturn Citizens United In 2014"

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Senate Democrats Plot Vote To Overturn Citizens United In 2014

by Sahil Kapur at Talking Points Memo

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/senate-vote-constitutional-amendment-overturn-citizens-united

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The Senate will vote in 2014 on a constitutional amendment to undo Supreme Court rulings in recent years which invalidated campaign finance limits, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Wednesday.

The No. 3 Democratic senator made the announcement during a Senate Rules Committee hearing, saying his majority would hold a vote on Sen. Tom Udall's (D-NM) proposal, which would reverse decisions like Citizens United and McCutcheon and restore Congress's authority to set campaign finance limits.

"The Supreme Court is trying to take this country back to the days of the robber barons, allowing dark money to flood our elections," Schumer said. "That needs to stop, and it needs to stop now. The only way to undo the damage the court has done is to pass Senator Udall's amendment to the Constitution, and Senate Democrats are going to try to do that. Before the year is out, we're going to bring it up on the Senate floor for a vote, where we hope Republicans will join us in ensuring the wealthy can’t drown out middle-class voices in our democracy."

The proposal stands virtually no chance of gaining the two-thirds majority required in the House and Senate to amend the Constitution, much less being ratified by three-fourths of states. It is part of Democrats' election-year strategy in 2014, given the unpopularity of the Citizens United ruling. Republicans are largely supportive of the Supreme Court's decisions.



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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. I applaud what is obviously eleciton year posturing...

Republicans in the House will never pass such an amendment and, I suspect, Republican in the Senate will "raise procedural roadblocks."

People need to see the difference, and tilting at a windmill may be the only way to show them.

[Laelth]

2. Good.

Nothing better to do than to work on some legislation we might be able to pass in 2015 if we take back the House. Why not?



-Laelth